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• South Carolina Child Potentially Exposed To Rabies Infected Bat
  Fri, 31 October 2008
  A Dillon child who was potentially exposed to rabies by a bat is under the care of a physician after the bat tested positive for rabies, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reported today. The little girl was potentially exposed while she was at asleep in her home, said Sue Ferguson of DHEC's Bureau of ...
• Animal Testing - MEP Wants Law Changed, Duplicate Experiments Mean Too Many Animals Suff ...
  Fri, 31 October 2008
  Plaid MEP Jill Evans (Wales) believes a twenty year old European law on animal testing is in urgent need of updating because it allows too many animals to suffer unnecessarily. The MEP says many experiments are being duplicated, leading to animal suffering that could be avoided. The MEP wants the European Commission to e ...
• Dairy Veterinarians Highlight Need For Improved Methods For Detecting Mastitis
  Fri, 31 October 2008
  Current methods for detecting and diagnosing mastitis in dairy cows are not serving the needs of dairy producers well, according to a survey of leading dairy veterinarians conducted at the recent annual meeting of the American Association o ...
• Veterinarians Are Happy And Really Like Their Jobs, According To Survey - American Veter ...
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  There is no way of knowing how many little boys and girls dream of growing up to be veterinarians â? but it's a whole lot. A recent survey of the profession shows that kids have got it right, veterinarians love their jobs. The 2007 Member Needs Assessment, conducted by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) ...
• No Evidence For An Evolutionary Trade-off Between Learning And Immunity In A Social Insect
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  The immune response affects learning and memory in insects. Given this and the known fitness costs of both the immune system and learning, does an evolutionary trade-off exist between these two systems? We tested this by measuring the learning ability of twelve bumble-bee colonies. We then tested their immune response. We ...
• Study Confirms Amphibians' Ability To Predict Changes In Biodiversity
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good bellwethers for impending alterations in biodiversity during rapid climate change. Now two University of California biologists have verified the predictive power of this sens ...
• Interactions Among Co-infecting Parasite Species: A Mechanism Maintaining Genetic Variat ...
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  Animals are often infected by several parasite species. If the co-infecting parasites interact, this can alter the disease dynamics by increasing or decreasing the infection success. Interactions between strains of fish eye flukes, however, show high variation between different strain combinations of co-infecting parasites ...
• New Treatment Method For Canine Eye Diseases Developed By Iowa State Researcher
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  An Iowa State University researcher is exploring a new method of getting medicine to the eyes of infected dogs that is more effective and reliable than using eye drops. Dr. Sinisa Grozdanic, an assistant professor of veterinary clinical sciences at Iowa State's College of Veterinary Medicine, is working with a drug manufa ...
• Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis Of Mammals: Evolution And Life History
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  The discovery that new neurons are born in the adult mammalian brain has raised hopes that selective stimulation of the formation of new neurons, i.e. neurogenesis, might improve cognitive abilities in disabled or healthy humans. Although neurogenesis has been studied extensively in laboratory rodents, a clearly defined ...
• Long-term Reciprocity Of Grooming In Wild West African Chimpanzees
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  Humans are well known for their ability to exchange helpful acts, and keep track of social favours over long periods of time. However, there is ongoing debate over whether non-human primates can keep track of previous interactions and, if so, if they can do it long term, or are constrained to finalize exchanges within a sing ...