Global health officials underestimated the risk that pig herds might be a source of new influenza strains, choosing instead to focus on the threat of bird flu, researchers in Mexico said on Thursday.
June 1: The 2,700 pigs on the farm that John Horrevorts manages yield more than ham and bacon. A biogas plant makes enough electricity from their waste to run the farm and feeds extra wattage into the Dutch national grid.
He even gets bonus payments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Lahore High Court directed the Federal and Punjab health department and Jamia Ashrafia to submit their replies by June 27 in a petition challenging the use of unhealthy salts in making of chips commonly sold in the market. The petitioner Qari Sanaullah has questioned the fatwa given by Jamia Ashrafia declaring the use of the said salt by chips manufacturing company.
KOHIMA: Nagaland, which is considered as one of the biggest importers as well as consumers of pork, will soon have a pig breeding farm based on German and UK technology in Jalukie under Peren district.
Nagaland, which is considered as one of the biggest importers as well as consumers of pork, will soon have a pig breeding farm based on German and UK technology at Jalukie under Peren district.
The vaccine industry is waiting for a WHO decision on whether to keep making regular flu vaccine, or whether to switch to vaccines for the current swine flu outbreak.
