I didn’t know this and I suspect others don’t know about it either. This year’s flu jab protects against H1N1 and other common seasonal flu strains. To be clear, it is a vaccine against swine flu and that’s important. It’s rather strange that I wasn’t …
Brucella canis is a zoonosis. It is a zoonotic disease. It is a bacterial infection which can be transferred from animal to person. It has happened for the first time when Wendy Hayes contracted the disease from a rescue dog she was fostering in 2022. …
NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA: This is an example of zoonosis which is a health problem of increasing concern for humans. A zoonosis is an infectious disease that has jumped from a non-human animal to humans. In this instance the disease takes the form of an endoparasite …
Sir Brian May is a very accomplished English musician, songwriter, singer, astrophysicist and animal rights activist. I love the way he fights for animal rights. He does a lot of it and he has a voice thanks to the fact that he was the lead guitarist of the …
NEWS AND VIEWS – INDIA: I cannot embed the Twitter video but I can provide a screenshot (below). It shows a calm woman with her dog in a lift, I believe in India. And at least one person is harassing her in their native language …
About five days ago it was reported in the news media that Jeremy Farrar, the incoming chief scientist at the World Health Organisation (WHO) had urged governments to ensure that the pharmaceutical industry crank up trials and thereafter the production of avian flu (H5N1) vaccines …
This is an update on the devastating avian flu outbreak in the UK. My thanks to The Times newspaper and Rhys Blakely the science correspondent. Before I mention the report, I can remember a television news item yesterday featuring a woman who looks after a …
The first news on where Covid-19 started was the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. It is a large market where seafood and animals other than seafood were sold. There were a variety of live wild animals at the market before the pandemic including raccoon dogs, muskrats, …
In the first case of its kind, scientists have reported on a couple living on Staten Island, New York City, who gave their dog monkeypox by sleeping with the companion animal. It is reported in the Lancet medical journal. It concerns a couple of gay …
