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Work Begins on a Critical Domestic Herd, Wildlife Disease Research and Testing FacilityUniversity of Wyoming - www.uwyo.edu
23 Jun 2009
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In about two years, a new $24.9 million biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory will house critical research and testing on diseases that infect both domestic and wildlife herds in Wyoming.
A BSL-3 laboratory allows disease agents like brucellosis, plague, tularemia and Q fever to be studied in a safe environment.
"When complete, the BSL-3 laboratory will significantly increase our ability to diagnose and then do needed research about these disease agents," said Frank Galey, dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Wyoming.
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Global Sunscreen Won't Save CoralsScience Daily - www.sciencedaily.com
2009 Jun 26
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Emergency plans to counteract global warming by artificially shading the Earth from incoming sunlight might lower the planet's temperature a few degrees, but such "geoengineering" solutions would do little to stop the acidification of the world oceans that threatens coral reefs and other marine life, report the authors of a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The culprit is atmospheric carbon dioxide, which even in a cooler globe will continue to be absorbed by seawater, creating acidic conditions.
Cited Journal Article
Sensitivity of ocean acidification to geoengineered climate stabilization. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, 28 May 2009. HD Matthews et al.
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>>> Storms cripple reef renewal [cited journal article - Hurricanes and coral bleaching linked to changes in coral recruitment in Tobago. Marine Environmental Research. 2009; J Mallela et al.]
Mysterious Virus Killing Fish in Smith Mountain LakeNewsplex.com - www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv
25 Jun 2009
Location: Virginia, USA - Map It
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A mysterious virus is killing fish in Smith Mountain Lake, and it's only attacking carp. . . . People who live along the lake say they pick eight to twelve dead fish a week out of the lake.
>>> FULL ARTICLE [includes video]
Montana finds no chronic wasting disease in 2009
KXNet.com - www.kxmc.com (source: Associated Press)
26 Jun 2009
Montana wildlife officials tested about 2,000 deer, elk and Moose collected during the 2008-2009 hunting season and did not detect chronic wasting disease in any of the animals tested.
. . . Over the past 11 years the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks has tested more than 14,000 wild elk and deer in Montana for CWD and has not yet found any evidence of the disease.
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>>> Wildlife tested for CWD, TB have been negative [North Dakota, USA]
>>> 2009 Citizen Advisory Committee Reports Posted on the Web; CWD Not Found in Pennsylvania Hunter-Killed Deer Samples [press release]
2 Kent County men sentenced for violating chronic wasting disease quarantine [Michigan, USA]
Montana finds no chronic wasting disease in 2009
2 Kent County men sentenced for violating chronic wasting disease quarantine [Michigan, USA]
Montana finds no chronic wasting disease in 2009
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