While federal regulations allow veterinarians to make vaccines within a veterinarian-client-patient relationship, they cannot take the products to other farms. Swine veterinarians wrestling with two diseases Speakers at AASV meeting call for additional research, preventive measures. The acronyms refer to porcine circovirus-associated disease, which practitioners often see as postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome, and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome. Fetuses that received...

IF THE 'non-cooperation movement' conceived by Mahatma Gandhi helped him to fight the British during India's freedom struggle, Indonesia, which took a leaf out of his book, used this weapon to take on the World Health Organisation and the developed nations in its struggle to gain access to vaccines produced using its bird flu samples in case of a pandemic. IF THE 'non-cooperation movement' conceived by Mahatma Gandhi helped him to fight the British during India's freedom struggle,...

Board chairman Mike McLaughlin said Tuesday night he had only minimal details on the proposal and just recently received notification from the Illinois Department of Agriculture about the plans of High Power Pork, LLC to build a 3,467-head facility that could be enlarged. Adams County Board agrees to hear proposal for large swine operation. Board chairman Mike McLaughlin said Tuesday night he had only minimal details on the proposal and just recently received notification from the Illinois...

The cost of such a power surge is having a direct impact on the buying decisions, operational plans, and research-and-development efforts at large tech firms from Boston to Austin to San Francisco. That cost's magnitude is only now becoming obvious, and painful, to power- hungry technology firms, according to Taylor and a dozen others interviewed for this story. That's a dramatic shift from earlier this decade, when Akamai's customers were mostly busy Web sites needing to move huge files...

The contamination of fish feed is in addition to the contamination of chicken and hog feed as well as pet food, which has killed thousands of dogs and cats in the United States. Acheson said, "we learned that a portion of the mislabeled wheat gluten from the Chinese firm was sent to Canada and when in Canada was used to manufacture fishmeal, and that that fishmeal was then imported back into the United States for use in feeding fish in certain industrial aquaculture type situations....