Tag Archives: West Nile

One Health Headlines: Friday, November 2, 2012

November 2, 2012 | Michael San Filippo | Leave a comment

In this week’s One Health roundup: Newly developed vaccine released to help control Hendra virus in Australia; indoor cat in Georgia exposes humans to rabies; UN ties climate change to the spread of disease; and much more.

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One Health Headlines: Friday, September 7, 2012

September 7, 2012 | Michael San Filippo | Leave a comment

In this week’s One Health roundup: A third death has been linked to rodent-borne hantavirus in Yosemite National Park; a new highly-toxic strain of H5N1 bird flu has been identified in Vietnam; a look at how “alien mammals” threaten Europe’s biodiversity and human health; and much more.

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One Health Headlines: Friday, December 9, 2011

December 9, 2011 | Michael San Filippo | Leave a comment

Happy Friday, everyone! Lots of good information in this week’s One Health roundup, including our lead story, which looks at research on how snake venom can help fight cancer by starving tumors.

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Connecting the dots

November 11, 2009 | Editor | Leave a comment

It was a veterinary pathologist who first figured out that the deaths of crows in New York and the illnesses in people were related and were due to infection with the West Nile Virus.

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