Gastrointestinal Diseases from Animals

Epic Games and Coffee Stain — the studio behind Satisfactory and Goat Simulator — are partnering up for a terrifying Fortnite skin to get you in the mood for scary season. Starting Thursday and running until Sept. 29, 2023, players who purchase Goat Simulator 3 on the Epic Games store will get the "A Goat" skin in Fortnite . This Fortnite skin is available now to players who buy the game, even though Coffee Stain won't launch Goat Simulator 3 until later this year, on Nov. 17. For players who want the skin but aren't interested in destructive goat shenanigans, "A Goat" will also come to Fortnite 's in-game shop on Nov. 26. Image: Coffee Stain Studios/Epic Games As for the skin itself, it's a half-human, half-goat hybrid that is truly haunting — Black Phillip himself would be proud. The goat is grey, h...

NEW DELHI -- A viral disease has killed nearly 100,000 cows and buffaloes in India and sickened over 2 million more. The outbreak has triggered devastating income losses for cattle farmers since the disease not only results in deaths but can also lead to decreased milk production, emaciated animals, and birth issues. The disease, called lumpy skin disease, is spread by insects that drink blood like mosquitoes and ticks. Infected cows and buffaloes get fevers and develop lumps on their skin. Farmers have experienced severe losses from extreme weather events over the past year: a record-shattering heat wave in India reduced wheat yields in April, insufficient rainfall in eastern states like Jharkhand state shriveled parched winter crops such as pulses, and an unusually intense September rainfall has damaged rice in the north. And now, the virus has spread to at least 15 states with the number of cow and buffalo deaths nearly doubling in three weeks, the Press Trust of India news ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] E. Coli Infection: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment | HealthNews    Healthnews.com

Below are answers from AAP experts on some of the most frequently asked questions about how to prevent, recognize, test for and treat monkeypox. Additional resources, including details from Red Book Online, are listed below. Is monkeypox a risk for children and adolescents? The risk of children and adolescents getting infected with monkeypox virus is low. Monkeypox can spread to anyone through close, personal, often skin-to-skin contact and not through casual contact (eg, in school, child care settings). Risk of infection is more likely for household members and other close contacts of an infected person. As of August 21st, 17 pediatric cases have been reported in children 0-15 years old and 134 cases have been reported in adolescents/young adults 16 to 20 years old in the United States. The highest proportion of cases by race and ethnicity have been reported in people who are American Indian/ Alaska Native (30.6%), Hispanic or Latino (31.8%) and Black or African American (33.2%). ...

Key takeaways: Canid conundrum.  Upending long-held assumptions, researchers found that a single doglike species that entered South America less than 4 million years ago gave rise to all of today's canid species.  Speedy speciation.  Within a span of 2 million years, the blink of an eye in evolutionary time, all 10 existing species and some that are now extinct evolved from that original group.  How did it happen?  The research demonstrates just how rapidly new species can arise and spread out geographically in environments where there is little competition.  South America has more canid species than any place on Earth, and a surprising new UCLA-led genomic analysis shows that all these doglike animals evolved from a single species that entered the continent just 3.5 million to 4 million years ago. Scientists had long assumed that these diverse species sprang from multiple ancestors. E...

Behind every successful cow are millions of gut microorganisms — mostly bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi. This bastion of bugs that resides in a cow's 20-gallon rumen are ultimately responsible for digesting all the plant material the bovine consumes. Being the quintessential symbiotic relationship — the cow supplies the bugs with nutrients and the bugs convert cellulose into usable energy for the cow — it also works the other way: when the cow gets sick, the bugs get sick, too. Then they die. And no gut bugs eventually means no cow. Transfaunation — the act of taking microbes from one source and putting them in another — can be a literal lifesaver when it comes to a bovine bellyache. And how does one go about retrieving such a sample? By creating a one-stop shop for your sick cow's gut flora needs. Designated donor cows with a surgically installed port allow access to the rumen from the outside. Placing a rumen fistula — the medical term for a permanent hole between an...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 8, 2022) — Just after midnight on July 28, Doug "DJ" Fugate got a call from neighbors that the waters were rising. The farmer said he's had a few problems with flooding in previous years, so he knew he needed to check the barn.   He rushed to get the horses out and moved as much hay to the loft as he could before the water rapidly began to rise. Water was already up two feet into the barn as he drove the trailered horses to higher ground.   "Water's been in my barn five times total since I've been old enough to keep track," he said. "Most time, it wasn't that bad, two to three feet maybe, but this time, it got up to my loft."  Fugate raises Hereford cattle on the family farm that his grandfather bought in the early 1970s. The cattle went to higher ground and escaped the flood, but risin...

Wisconsin State Farmer WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 **Richland Center, WI 11:30 AM – Dairy Cattle Auction. Includes 107 head of Holstein dairy cattle. 12 head from a discontinuing dairy, weekly run of fresh cows & 2-year-olds, milking & bred back cows, spring cows & 1st calf heifers, breeding age bull, baby heifer and bull calves. Located at Richland Cattle Center, LLC, 24321 Hwy 58, Richland Center, WI. 608-585-3700. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Frankfort, IL The George & June Schaaf Tractor & Truck Museum, all offered at no reserve:1969 Ford County 754, 1974 International 1066 Wheatland, McCormick-Deering I-4 Roller, 1970 Lamborghini R240 and more. To see full listing visit www.mecum.com, Mecum Auctions, 262-275-5050. Suring, WI 10:00 AM – Complete shop liquidation for KNT Fabrication. The sale includes shop tools, vehicles and more. Visit www.yoapandyoap.com for full listings and sale information. Sale located at 11177 County A, ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Highly-endangered Irrawaddy dolphin discovered in Bicol waters for the first time    GMA News Online

Few supplement categories are as popular these days as probiotics. Twenty years ago, probiotics were relatively obscure and found only in health food stores, but now you can find them at your local big-box store or supermarket. Popular as probiotics have become, most people (even those who take them daily) probably can't tell you what they are or how they work. "There has been a slight evolution of the definition," explains Matthew Ciorba, M.D., a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis. "Essentially, probiotics are living microorganisms — typically bacteria, but some yeasts — that confer a health benefit when taken in adequate amounts." Probiotics use increased 66% in the first five months of 2020. According to the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP), these beneficial bugs help support our natural microbiota — a complex system of trillions of microorganisms that live in and on ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today over the agency's denial of Endangered Species Act protections to the Barrens darter. Named for its home on the Barrens Plateau of central Tennessee, the darter is one of the rarest fish in North America. "We can't afford to lose the Barrens darter, but every day these fish aren't protected makes it more likely that we will," said Meg Townsend, freshwater attorney at the Center. "As is too often the case, the Fish and Wildlife Service got it wrong when it denied protection to this sweet little fish." The Barrens darter has been reduced to living in just a few small headwater streams that feed the Collins River between Nashville and Chattanooga, and its numbers are decreasing. Much of the species' habitat has been damaged by water pumping for agriculture and livestock grazing, which has widened streams and increased harmful sediments that destroy the darter...

When Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurred around 2006 and entire colonies of honeybees died, experts and the public alike were justifiably alarmed. The campaign to "save the honeybees" somehow got entangled in our minds with "save the pollinators" and "save the planet." It was a misunderstanding. Yes, beekeepers are still struggling, and healthy honeybees are important, especially for commercial agriculture. But honeybees are not endangered. In fact, there are more honeybees on the planet now than there ever have been. And that, is because we manage them, says Scott Hoffman Black, executive director of the Xerces Society, an international nonprofit focused on invertebrate conservation. The Honeybee and the Native Bee Colonists brought the European honeybee, Apis mellifera , to North America around 1622, primarily as a source of sugar. Honeybees, which some Native Americans called "white man's flies," quickly spread westward. For the first ...

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India on Saturday begins renewed efforts re-introduce cheetahs in India. Five females and three males have been brought from Namibia in Africa and have been released in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.  The big cats were indigenous to India for thousands of years before hunting and loss of habitat reduced their numbers drastically by the dawn of the 20th century. Cheetahs were formally declared extinct in 1952. In the backdrop of what gains are being intended by reintroducing cheetahs, Himachal Pradesh already has its heart-warming stories from the high-altitude cold deserts of Spiti where snow Leopards, also on the list of 21 critically endangered species, are on a steadily recovering in strength. In the first-ever study on snow leopards in Lahaul-Spiti by the state's wildlife department, with help from Mysore-based Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) in 2021, the population of the snow leopards was found to have increased to 73. Hardev Negi, who was...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Infections: Types, Causes, Symptoms, and Prevention    Healthgrades

For contagious disease scientists, 2022 started off with a bang — and it wasn't just the fresh wave of Omicron infections. It was a preliminary study on another coronavirus found in bats, called NeoCoV. This virus is related to the lethal but rare Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which has killed more than a third of everyone infected. In the paper, published in January on the online preprint server bioRxiv, the authors describe an experiment with the virus in the lab. NeoCoV seemed to be one mutation away from enabling a receptor on the virus's surface to infect human cells. How did they discover this mutation? They coaxed the virus into mutating — creating a version that could infect humans, with unknown consequences. The paper was a grenade thrown headlong into epidemiology and virology. The ensuing firestorm of controversy is still uncontained. "I view the work that the scientists have done as dangerous and irresponsible," Stephen Luby, a professor of medi...