Gastrointestinal Diseases from Animals

"Mom, I'm hungry" by Yaron Schmid Location of shot: Serengeti, Tanzania It was such a treat watching a pride of lions on top of one of the rocks in the Serengeti. The cubs were very playful and just wanted to play with the mothers' tails but all the mothers wanted to do was sleep. Here is one of the cubs as it's trying to wake up his sleeping mom. There's only a short time left to enter the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, but if these early entries are any indication, the competition is already heating up. Professional and amateur photographers have until September 1, 2022 to enter their humorous images of wildlife around the world into the annual contest. Whether it's an image of baby animals being silly or an adult making funny faces, these goofy photos show a lighter side of nature. The preview images show a wide range of entries from the contest's six categories, which include Land, Air, Underwater, and Portfolio. There is also a youth...

ELLENDALE, Minn. — When the Cowell family first started raising cattle, there weren't many others in their area of southern Minnesota with the Highland breed. But that has changed dramatically in the last few years. Melinda Cowell says there are probably 10 farms with Highlands within 50 miles of their farm near Ellendale, between Owatonna and Albert Lea. Ten years ago, that number would have been more like two. "Part of it is food availability," Cowell said. "People were worried about being able to access food when all the COVID stuff happened." For people wanting to raise a low-maintenance cattle breed with good quality meat, the shaggy, long-horned Highlands are considered a good choice. "Highlands have a name as an efficient and cheap breed to keep," Cowell said. ...

John was standing in a crowded doctor's foyer when he saw a brown ooze dripping down his back and leg. The 59-year-old's back surgery almost three weeks earlier had gone well, but now he was "feeling really crook". He couldn't get near the counter to get an appointment so returned home when the liquid started dripping on to the carpet. Eighteen hours later, he was found on the floor of his home, having suffered a stroke. He would spend the next 108 days in Hawke's Bay Hospital largely in intensive care, in and out of comas and surgeries, which left him with a temporary colostomy bag – all due to infected metal wear. He thought he would die. "I felt the physical pull of slipping off into death and I thought, 'oh, that's nice'. But I thought, 'no, I've got too much to live for'. After that I started coming right." READ MORE: * Covid-19 serves up a double dose of misery with sepsis also an issue in some cases, says medic * Br...

Two miniature cows have been stealing the show recently at Cherry Crest Adventure Farm, located at 150 Cherry Hill Road, Ronks. Cinnamon (the brown one) and Sterling (the white one), are two three-month-old micro miniature highland cows. [embedded content] According to Sherri Groff, one of two daughters of Cherry Crest's owners, the cows' unique size has to do with a dwarfism gene that they were born with that keeps them small. "People love them because they are very fluffy and they just have a great personality. ... They're really relaxed and calm," she said. Cinnamon and Sterling even have their own Tik Tok account, dubbed @cow_tiktok, that has garnered over 51K followers so far. You can meet the two mini-cows when Cherry Crest Adventure Farm open for visitors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 28. They will also be open those same hours on Memorial Day. For the full schedule, visit the farm's website. Tickets start at: $16.95 May 28-June 30; $21.95 June 2-Nov. 5. A...

A woman has died after being bitten by a venomous snake in Pakistan, joining over 100 others who have suffered snake bites as disastrous floods continue to rage across the country. Severe flash flooding caused by an unprecedented monsoon season has wreaked havoc across Pakistan since June. Sherry Rehman, the country's climate change minister, said on Monday that around a third of the country is underwater and 33 million people have been affected. The woman was bitten at her home in the Nowshera district of the northwestern province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She died after floods prevented her from receiving timely medical attention, UrduPoint reported. It is not clear what species of snake attacked the woman; Pakistan is home to a number of venomous snakes including vipers, cobras and kraits. Venomous snake bites are a medical emergency and cannot be treated without antivenom. Survival depends on how quickly the victim can receive treatment. In this combination image, displaced people ...

Loxton-born Ena Murray wrote romance novels here, producing more than 130 titles. Top Afrikaans thriller writer Deon Meyer was enchanted by the faces and places around Loxton, bought a house here and even made a feature film on Jakhalsdans, a neighbouring guest farm. The Loxton DR Church – the spiritual and geographical centre of the village. Image: Chris Marais Both Murray and Meyer based many of their characters on the people of Loxton, a settlement that seems to attract creative spirits. Not far out of town is Kasteel Farm, named after the quirky Bavarian-style castle built decades ago by one Jan Hugo, who was inspired by the castles of Germany. When he found the castle he really liked, he sketched it on the back of a pack of cigarettes. And when he came home, he set about building it. He laid the last stone in 1974. Dries and Myalan Wiese at their castle parapets on Kasteel Farm. Image: Chris Marais The farm was later taken over by the Wiese family. Today, Dries and Myala...

Cutibacterium modestum was previously described as " Propionibacterium humerusii ." The DNA sequence of C. modestum is 89% similar to that of C. acnes [1]. Previous studies have reported that this bacterium can be detected in human skin [3, 4]. This organism was formally termed as " Cutibacterium modestum " in 2020 [5]. MALDI-TOF MS is widely used for bacterial identification and allows for the relatively easy and quick identification of microorganisms, including C. acnes . However, the predominant peaks on mass spectrometry of C. modestum are different compared with those of C. acnes and its subspecies [6]. MALDI-TOF MS originally suggested that our isolate was C. acnes . However, the log score 1.62 of this species was not adequate to accurately identify the bacteria on either the species or genus level. In addition, the biochemical qualities of this isolate, in particular glycine arylamidase and indole levels, were not consisting with those of C. acne s and o...

John was standing in a crowded doctor's foyer when he saw a brown ooze dripping down his back and leg. The 59-year-old's back surgery almost three weeks earlier had gone well, but now he was "feeling really crook". He couldn't get near the counter to get an appointment so returned home when the liquid started dripping on to the carpet. Eighteen hours later, he was found on the floor of his home, having suffered a stroke. He would spend the next 108 days in Hawke's Bay Hospital largely in intensive care, in and out of comas and surgeries, which left him with a temporary colostomy bag – all due to infected metal wear. He thought he would die. "I felt the physical pull of slipping off into death and I thought, 'oh, that's nice'. But I thought, 'no, I've got too much to live for'. After that I started coming right." READ MORE: * Covid-19 serves up a double dose of misery with sepsis also an issue in some cases, says medic * Br...