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...used to test for presence of antibodies to the virus. That would indicate, at the very least, that China suspected this type of influenza might be afflicting its poultry but did not yet have the means to test. Both Japan and Taiwan have intercepted shipments of tainted duck meat from the mainland in the past year. Kim Sun Jwong, an avian-diseases expert at Seoul National University, believes the Middle Kingdom is the most likely provenance of Korea's H5N1 outbreak. And live chickens are also frequently traded along China's border with Vietnam. If China is seeding these outbreaks...
Nancy Rubens, a painter in New York City, never imagined when her son Alex got a "really cool" turtle, Mikey, for his 12th birthday that a dozen years later she would be boiling meat and eggs three times a week to minister to Mikey's osteoporosis. "Her bones were damaged," Rubens, 55, reports. "She had X rays and shots, and now I have to cook her food." Rubens isn't sure whether, even if Alex took Mikey, her son's lifestyle would permit the care this exotic pet requires. "It's hard to have much rapport with a turtle," Rubens...
McDonald's, the world's largest fast-food chain, said that by the end of 2004 it would stop using meat from animals that had been excessively treated with antibiotics. The decision may help curtail the practice of dosing healthy animals with antibiotics to plump them up for slaughter. Doctors hope this will reduce the opportunity for disease-causing bacteria, present in meat, to become resistant to drugs...
VITAMIN B: Finnish researchers concluded that B12 (found in meat, milk and fortified cereal) may beat the blues. Depressed patients with the highest levels of vitamin B12 in their blood responded best to treatment...
...can’t we build something warm?” said Brad Carrick, also a second-year student. “Or if it has to be cold, I think we should also build a luge and have luge lessons. And wear meat helmets...