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The U.S. Can Support Global Health Without Backing the WHO
06 Mar 2025 05:18 GMT
Of all of the United Nations’ activities—peacekeeping, refugee management, protecting … new entities like the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS … made a mess of the swine flu in 2009—leading to the …
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From Climate Change to Bird Flu, Is the End of Meat Near?
06 Mar 2025 00:35 GMT
… greenhouse gasses. According to the United Nations, livestock contributes 14.5 percent … can spread in industrialized farms. Swine flu emerged from industrialized pig farms …
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Antigua and Barbuda avoiding swine flu amid nearby outbreak
29 Sep 2021 08:44 GMT
By Orville Williams
[email protected]
The local meat industry and wider agriculture sector have so far been spared any impact from the dangerous African swine fever (ASF), which is threatening to decimate the domestic pig population in the neighbouring …
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After cholera and dengue, swine flu threatens Yemen
18 Jan 2020 03:26 GMT
… as a result of the swine flu. This follows recent cholera … number of people infected with swine flu reached 6,600 cases … “A bout of fast-spreading swine flu has killed 94 people in … of people, triggering what the United Nations has called “the worst …
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Alternative Proteins' Place on the Global Health Agenda
14 Feb 2025 01:39 GMT
… after wave of avian flu, swine flu, Nipah virus...the list goes … zoonotic disease spread. A 2020 United Nations report named the increased demand …
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Solon seeks harsher measures vs swine flu
19 Sep 2019 10:41 GMT
Ang Magsasaka partylist Rep. Argel Cabatbat yesterday called for harsher measures to stop the entry of African Swine Fever virus in the country, including a total ban on pork importation and the temporary prohibition on the collection of food leftovers as …
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Global meat output to fall as swine flu ravages China pig farms
11 Jul 2019 01:47 GMT
Meat production is likely to fall for the first time in two decades because of a deadly disease that’s wiping out Chinese hog herds.
That’s according a report from the United Nations, which said African swine fever will have far-reaching effects in food …
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Pig prices take flight on back of African swine flu outbreak
13 Jun 2019 02:51 GMT
Following an outbreak of African swine flu, pork producers saw a 30% … known approved vaccine for African swine flu.
The advisory said the outbreak … and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations," the advisory said.
In …
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IPS officer who died of swine flu worked on Bellary mining probe
31 Dec 2018 21:04 GMT
… Shetty, 47, who died of swine flu at a hospital in Hyderabad … went on deputation to the United Nations Mission in Kosova, where he …
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Karnataka IPS officer Madhukar Shetty dies of swine flu
31 Dec 2018 11:57 GMT
… Madhukar Shetty, 47, died of swine flu Friday night at a private … went on deputation to the United Nations Mission in Kosova, where he …