Saudi MOH Confirms Another MERS Case In Riyadh

  #10,360   After several fairly quiet weeks, MERS reports are starting to pick up again in Saudi Arabia, with 7 cases reported over the past 5 days – 6 of which have centered around  Riyadh.   Although the source of exposure was not provided for the first 5 cases, the latest two cases are listed as having `Contact with suspected or confirmed cases in...

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Video: Florida DOH On The Link Between Armadillos & Leprosy

Nine-banded Armadillo –wikipedia   # 10,359   The past couple of weeks armadillos and leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) have been in the news again, as Florida recorded its 9th case of 2015 (see Newsweek’s Spitting Armadillos Blamed for Florida’s Emerging Leprosy Problem). Although  rare, the United States still sees about 150-220 cases each year, and 200,000 cases...

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CDC FluView: 1 Novel (H3N2v) Flu Case Reported – Minnesota

# 10,358   From this week’s FluView report we’ve news of the third novel flu detection in the United States for 2015, which should serve as a reminder that good farm biosecurity needs to extend beyond just the chicken coop and into the other barns as well. The two previoius cases this year were both swine variant H1N1v, with one case (fatal) report last May from Ohio...

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APHIS Releases Updated HPAI Epidemiology Report

  # 10,357   On June 15th APHIS  released a 38-page partial epidemiology report on the spread of HPAI H5 across the United States (see APHIS: Partial Epidemiology Report On HPAI H5 In The US) that cited a number of plausible factors that might explain the rapid spread of the HPAI between farms, particularly in the Midwest.   While investigators had been...

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Grenada: Submarine Volcano Raised To Orange Alert

 Credit Wikipedia     # 10,356   Although we tend to think of hurricanes as the greatest natural disaster threat in the Caribbean, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives over the past 300 years.  The 2010 Haitian earthquake alone claimed 200,000+ lives, and the1902 eruption of Mount  Pelée on the northern...

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Saudi MOH: 1 New MERS Case In Riyadh

# 10,356   The Saudi MOH announced their 6th new MERS case in the past 4 days, five of which have hailed from Riyadh.  Unlike the others mentioned this week, this one reportedly had recent contact with an infected case....

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RESEP LAKSA KUAH AYAM BUMBU ONCOM KHAS BOGOR

Resep Laksa Bogor kuah ayam dengan bumbu oncom sebagai ciri khasnya. Ada banyak variasi laksa di nusantara, laksa oncom khas Bogor adalah salah satu di antaranya yang populer. Laksa Bogor merupakan variasi laksa lainnya dengan kuah enak bumbu oncom yang dihidangkan bersama bihun dan toge serta sangat cocok disajikan sebagai kuah lontong ataupun potongan ketupat.Laksa ayam...

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