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...Another certainty is that for a nation with a poor record of public healthcare, containing the virus will be a steep challenge. India's Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has quarantined the area in the district of Nandurbar and dispatched medical teams to cull up to half a million chickens from around 16 farms. Other flocks on nearby farms are being vaccinated. Ramadoss has also sent a million doses of H5N1 bird vaccine to Nandurbar. But despite his assurances that "people need no panic, the situation is under control," Indian newspapers on Monday published pictures showing some farmers participating...
...state and territory governments that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year trying to keep crocodiles and human beings apart. With more than 100,000 crocodiles living around the coast from Bundaberg, Queensland, to Derby, Western Australia, it's a daunting task. Each attack draws calls for a cull of the reptiles, which have been protected by law since the early '70s, and fresh concerns about the effectiveness of management programs. The Queensland government says its crocodile-control strategy - monitoring populations, removing crocodiles identified as a threat and educating people about the dangers - is working. But according to officials...
...could still cull a comely quintet of nominees from the current gang of 15--including Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Mad Hot Ballroom, Murderball, Rize and, of course, March of the Penguins. Perhaps Herzog can take solace in the fact that, as those penguins proved, persistence is everything...
...first official effort at documenting their formidable live show.Originally slated as half of a joint CD/DVD release—the DVD was cancelled because singer/song-writer Jeff Tweedy deemed the footage too “claustrophobic”—the double disc album contains 23 songs, mostly culled from the band’s recent studio effort “A Ghost is Born,” but their 2001 classic “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” is also well-represented. The band appointed well-respected sound engineer Jim Scott (Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili...
...more patient scientist might have waited and harvested more data. But patience is not Guan's strong suit, and with new human cases surfacing, there wasn't time. Putting his scientific reputation on the line, he gave his preliminary results to authorities in Guangdong and urged them to cull civets being sold in wild-animal markets. After some hesitation, they did--and since then, the only new SARS cases have come from a handful of lab accidents. "My personal effort stopped the second SARS outbreak," Guan says. "And hopefully my personal effort will contribute to saving the world from this...