Asian vultures need vet drug ban
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The veterinary drug blamed for killing South Asia's vultures should be banned now, conservationists say.
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Players who test positive for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs should be banned from baseball and the Hall of Fame, according to the majority of fans polled by Connecticut&#39;s Quinnipiac University.
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. - An exotic animal with a long snout, bear-like claws and a tail like a raccoon scared the heck out of some narcotics investigators searching a home for drugs.
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Health officials in Thailand are to cull dozens of tigers at a private zoo to stem an outbreak of bird flu among the big cats. As many as 80 could be killed after seven tigers died, raising the death toll at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo to 30.
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Wildlife conservationists are expected to push for new trade restrictions to protect fast-disappearing animals and plants, while lobbyists try to free up commerce in some species at international talks starting yesterday in Bangkok.
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BIRD flu has come to roost at our doorstep. This after six fatalities in Vietnam between July 30 and Aug 3, where death occurred so rapidly that laboratory samples could be collected only from one case.
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With health authorities on alert against an outbreak of the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic, Shenzhen, a city in south China&#39;s Guangdong Province, has banned sales of civet cats and other wild animals, a delicacy at local restaurants.
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A bird flu virus killed 26 people in Asia and prompted widespread slaughter of poultry several months ago. Now a new study says it can also infect cats.
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The bird flu epidemic that has killed 31 people in southeast Asia this year may also have killed 23 tigers at a zoo in eastern Thailand, a cabinet minister said Tuesday.
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Taiwan has banned the import of wild animals from most Southeast Asian countries as a fatal bird flu outbreak claims more victims in the region.
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The next time you take a Thai Airways flight to China, a passenger with a wingspan of 9.2 feet and a taste for rotting carcasses may also be on board. The country's national carrier announced Wednesday that it will transport a juvenile cinereous vulture to Beijing on March 21 to help return the rare bird to its natural environment in Mongolia.
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The World Health Organization is urging drugmakers including GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Sanofi-Aventis SA and Chiron Corp. to join in developing a vaccine to stop Asia&#39;s deadly bird flu virus from triggering a pandemic.
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Cambodian conservationists have found Southeast Asia's only known breeding colony of slender-billed vultures -- one of the world's most threatened birds.
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HIPPOS and other animals in Queen Elizabeth National Park and Katonga Wildlife Reserve in western Uganda are dying of anthrax. The commissioner in charge of livestock health in the agriculture ministry, Nicholas
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Beijing - Visitors to the Zhengzhou Zoo in central China&#39;s Henan province who don&#39;t enjoy passive smoking - let alone being spat on - had better avoid the monkey cage.
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Science & environment: Campaigners demand action to curb shipment of millions of animals around the world for slaughter
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Shotgun pellets and other ammunition left in carcasses are giving many of the nearly extinct vultures lead poisoning, a new study shows.