Sentences with phrase «livestock disease»

Commodity - linked derivative instruments may involve additional costs and risks such as changes in commodity index volatility or factors affecting a particular industry or commodity, such as drought, floods, weather, livestock disease, embargoes, tariffs and international economic, political and regulatory developments.

Background: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, is an important livestock disease raising public health and economic concerns around the world.

GALVmed specialises in product development partnerships uniquely established to translate global research progress into tangible livestock disease control tools for the developing world.

Livestock disease outbreaks can spread far and fast across the U.S.. From foot and mouth disease in cattle to avian influenza, the illnesses can wreak havoc on animals, the industrial food system and the economy.

Price movements may be influenced by weather and climate conditions, livestock disease, war, terrorism, political conflicts and economic events, interest rates, currency and exchange rates, government regulation and taxation.

Within a decade, the lab is expected to move to a brand - new biosafety level 4 facility in Kansas, where scientists can study Nipah virus encephalitis and other livestock diseases that could be fatal to humans.

The authors discovered that veterinarians» movements produce an unexpectedly large number of potentially infectious contacts between farms that can quickly spread dangerous livestock diseases.

This research, published in PLOS Computational Biology, can contribute to the development of more accurate tools for predicting the spread of livestock diseases and may help implement more effective biosecurity measures in farms.

Increasing temperatures may also increase the risk of livestock diseases by (i) supporting the dispersal of insects, e.g., Culicoides imicola, that are main vectors of several arboviruses, e.g., bluetongue (BT) and African horse sickness (AHS); (ii) enhancing the survival of viruses from one year to the next; (iii) improving conditions for new insect vectors that are now limited by colder temperatures (Wittmann and Baylis, 2000; Mellor and Wittmann, 2002; Colebrook and Wall, 2004; Gould et al., 2006).

It is also that capitalogenic global warming (CGW) has done fundamental and irreversible damage to agricultural productivity — primarily through more pervasive and crippling global droughts, along with help from the development of herbicide - resistant and CGW - friendly «super weeds» and antibiotic - resistant livestock diseases — so that a return to cheap food, a requirement for a re-expansion of cheap labor, may be impossible.

Establish links of emerging livestock diseases and new diseases strains related to climate change.

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The drugs, which could be administered in both feed and water, helped shield the livestock from disease, which also allowed farmers to pack more animals into barns and transformed old - fashioned agriculture into its modern industrialized form.

Out of the Earth ~ Natural Raw Diet for Dogs Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

(b) Any livestock that are treated with a prohibited substance applied as the result of a Federal or State emergency pest or disease treatment program or product derived from such treated livestock can not be sold, labeled, or represented as organically produced: Except, That:

BARS will assist CSIRO to deliver on its commitment to increase food production in cropping and livestock systems, improve drought tolerance and disease resistance, and improve nutritional values to meet the challenges of the future.

Since leaving politics, Mr Kerin has served with bodies including the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation, CSIRO, the Poultry Cooperative Research Centre, the Australian Weed Research Centre, the CRC for Tropical Savannas Management, UNICEF Australia and the National Ovine Johne's Disease Programme Advisory Committee.

A NATION - WIDE outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) could strip more than $ 50 billion from Australia's livestock industry over 10 years, according to a new costing model from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES).

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«All red meat, live animals and livestock product exports to most major trading partners would stop until the disease was eradicated and market access could be renegotiated,» he said.

Understandably, folks who are mindful of such things - as we are too - aren't likely to want to move their livestock from pasture to pasture for fear of catching or spreading disease, etc.... not to mention that we were dealing with a goat breed that we didn't know was in such big demand!

They have a role to play in sustainable livestock production by preventing waste and inefficiencies caused by disease, and help provide a safe supply of food from healthy animals.

Our medicines are vital to support this: they treat and prevent disease keeping our livestock and pets healthy.

Kitty Ussher, economic secretary to the Treasury said: «We want to offer help to people who are being affected by the outbreak of foot and mouth disease and the restrictions on the movement of livestock.

«Health Department officials confirm that the species of mosquito found to be infected with EEE generally feeds on birds, but prudence dictates we take every precaution to protect the public's health and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» Picente said.

Scientists study VSV, which causes acute disease in livestock but typically does not lead to illness in people, as a model for viruses that are harmful to humans.

Humans acquired many of the diseases that have been among the deadliest, historically, from the livestock domesticated in the early years of civilization.

«[Golden Malrin] is an important tool in reducing fly populations which have the potential to spread disease to livestock and humans,» wrote Mark Newberg, a representative for Wellmark International in Schaumburg, Illinois, which produces Golden Malrin, in an email.

The findings suggest that although wild animals may be important for the transmission of new diseases to humans, humanity's oldest companions — livestock and pets such as cattle and dogs provide the vital link in the emergence of new diseases.

The medical, humanitarian and economical impact of viral diseases is devastating to humans and livestock.

Six weeks later, the crops were analyzed and found to absorb chlortetracycline, a drug widely used to treat diseases in livestock.

If a bioterrorist is suspected to have infected the U.S. with a livestock virus such as African swine fever, rinderpest, or foot - and - mouth disease (FMD) all highly contagious and potentially devastatingthe FBI will send forensic scientists to Plum Island.

And foot - and - mouth disease, although it does not infect people, could devastate the economy if set loose among livestock.

Current U.S. regulations focus on monitoring live animal imports to prevent the spread of diseases to humans and livestock, not to native wildlife, says Lips.

We decry the effects of «invasive» fungal diseases on our farms, forgetting that the crops we grow and the livestock we raise are invaders.

Growing meat from single cells could reduce the opportunity for disease and contaminants to enter the food supply and eliminate the environmental impact (such as clearing Amazon rain forest to create grazing land) of raising livestock.

The agency needed to protect the state's livestock from the infectious diseases bison sometimes carry — but they ultimately shot dead more than 1,000 of the estimated 3,500 bison living in Yellowstone at the time.

Because different groups of people encounter different diseases — the European settlers had high exposure to smallpox, measles, and influenza thanks to close contact with livestock — they develop different antibodies.

Chronic wasting disease, a cousin of mad cow disease, is spreading among wild deer in parts of the U.S. Left unchecked, the fatal sickness could threaten North American deer populations — and maybe livestock and humans

The researchers compared the role of veterinarian movements on diseases spread with those of animal exchange between farms, which is recognized as the most effective transmission route for livestock infectious diseases.

Researchers have shown that looking at movements of operators and vehicles between farms in the same way we look at contacts in social networks can help explain the spread of dangerous infectious diseases of livestock, such as foot - and - mouth disease and avian influenza.

As a field, Carter observes, biology is still growing up and dealing with the fact that major societal applications are arising from the science developments of the last 30 years, ranging from new drugs against disease to the cloning of livestock.

He argued that creating generation after generation of virgin - born mammals would not only help to improve and accelerate the breeding of livestock (producing big males for the sake of a little sperm slows down breeding), but would yield new insights into disease, genetics and the function of sex itself.

Given the critical role livestock play in Mongolia, transmission of tick - borne diseases can have very real health and economic implications for livestock and the herders that tend to them.

In the meantime, it became conventional wisdom to blame the decline on factors such as conversion of lion habitat for agriculture, disease, and killings by locals upset over lion attacks on people or livestock.

Dr. Michael von Fricken explored this association using a multidisciplinary One Health research approach, which focused on the interaction between nomadic herders, the livestock they own, and the tick - borne diseases they are exposed to.

«Although many reports have addressed the effect of lactic acid bacteria on skin properties in subjects with skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, few studies have involved healthy humans,» explains lead investigator Hiromi Kimoto - Nira, PhD, of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science (NILGS), Tsukuba, Japan.

Reviewer Delia Grace applauds this comprehensive history, and recommends it those who are grappling with the resurgence in zoonotic diseases brought about by the rapid expansion of the livestock sector in developing countries and elsewhere.

The possibilities include intense competition for food and other resources due to overpopulation; the rise of diseases acquired by living closely with livestock, other humans, and their waste; and increased violence among Neolithic communities.

Traces of the virus have also been found in livestock elsewhere, strangely without any signs of the disease.