Gastrointestinal Diseases from Animals

Biologist Rob Serrouya received word of the female caribou's possible demise at 8:20 a.m. one Monday in late November. An automated email message warned the caribou's radio collar had slipped into mortality mode, meaning no signals of movement had been transmitted through a satellite for six hours.  Serrouya doubted the relatively new collar had malfunctioned or was lost in the snow on the slopes of the Monashee Mountains, north of Revelstoke, B.C. Likely something else had happened to the caribou from the highly endangered Columbia North herd. He grabbed his cell phone, a knife, a spot safety beacon and a telemetry receiver.  Two hours later, a helicopter dropped Serrouya off on a sloping patch of open snow in the forest of Engelman spruce and subalpine fir. He snowshoed about 900 metres through the trees, towards the collar's signal. The snow was unusually shallow, barely a foot deep, for that time of year. "Not a good sign," he...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - An endangered rhinoceros is calling Caldwell Zoo its new home. Scotty Stainback, Curator of Mammals at Caldwell Zoo, made the announcement today that Kiano, a black rhinoceros, is joining the family of animals at Tyler's zoo as it comes all the way from Iowa. "All of us are very happy to accept this amazing animal. Kiano came to us from the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa. He's strong, healthy and a really impressive animal. Such a great an ambassador for his species," said Stainback. Caldwell Zoo boasts a custom-made habitat for the rhinos, built specifically to house these strong animals. "The black rhinoceros is critically endangered in the wild. So, it's important that we do everything we can to help these magnificent animals.  Poaching has decimated the wild population. As a member of AZA (the Association of Zoos and Aquariums) we work closely with zoos all around the country to help endangered species," said Steve...

City manager in Utah on the deaths of 8 people Enoch, Utah, City Manager Rob Dotson said police officers found eight people inside a home, all with gunshot wounds, and talked about the impact the incident has on the community, which is made up of about 8,000 residents. A Utah man is facing up to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to automobile homicide and failure to remain at the scene of an accident earlier this year. Mason Ohms, 50, fatally struck and killed 13-year-old Eli Mitchell in an April 26, 2022, drunk driving incident while the boy was riding his bicycle home from the grocery store, according to Salt Lake County court records. "My only son and best friend was tragically taken from me due to many poor decisions and criminal actions due to Mason Ohms," Eli's father, Jeremy Mitchell, said in a witness statement read Monday during Ohms' sentencing, according to FOX 13 Salt Lake City. Ohms drank approximately 140 ounces of beer at a local bar before ...

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NEW YORK — Less than six months ago, mpox was an exploding health crisis. What had been an obscure disease from Africa was ripping through European and U.S. gay communities. Precious doses of an unproven vaccine were in short supply. International officials declared health emergencies. In Hudson County, where the first case in New Jersey was diagnosed, concerned health officials in Jersey City and Hoboken announced vaccination clinics. The Hyacinth Foundation partnered with Jersey City on the vaccination clinics. "I think the partnership worked really well together," said Kathy O'Brian, Hyacinth's executive director.

MAUPIN, Oregon — January 23, 2023 — Jeanne Carver, president and founder of Shaniko Wool Company, has won the American Sheep Industry Association's 2023 Innovation Award, which recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of an individual or organization that has improved the US sheep industry in a game-changing way. The American Sheep Industry Association (ASI) represents the interests of more than 100,000 sheep producers in the US and a federation of 45 state sheep associations. Carver has been pioneering her own path in the industry for 25 years, prevailing against tough odds when offshoring of wool in the late 1990's began decimating the same US sheep markets that ranchers had relied on for over 100 years. "During the 1990's, when our industry was feeling the pressure of offshoring in textile processing and manufacturing, along with consolidation in the food sector and import pressures on lamb, Jeanne led her family out of commodity wool and lamb sales...

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On a chilly spring day in 1966, zookeepers in London loaded a giant panda named Chi-Chi onto a commercial plane. The aircraft was bound for Russia. Chi-Chi was bound, you might say, for love. She would soon arrive at the Moscow Zoo to meet a slightly younger male named An-An, the only other captive giant panda living outside of China at the time. The goal was to get the two bears to breed. To prepare for Chi-Chi's departure, British European Airways removed about 30 seats in the front of the plane. The panda was carried aboard in a crate and separated from 37 passengers by a screen. Flight attendants sprayed deodorant to try and vanquish the scent of the 235-pound bear. For lunch, the attendants served passengers a side of bamboo hearts in Chi-Chi's honor. Chi-Chi leaves London for Moscow on March 11, 1966. Terry Fincher/Express/Getty Ima...

30 Austrian in-calf pedigree-registered heifers from the Kildangan Fleckvieh herd are set to come under the hammer in an on-farm online sale later this week. The sale will take place on the farm of Maurice Prendergast at Bawn, Kildagan, Co. Kildare, at 12 pm on Saturday, January 21 st , 2023, via Denis Barrett Auctions. The heifers are due to calve from the end of January, February, March, April and May to AI sires or a pedigree Fleckvieh bull. According to Prendergast, all entries are registered in the Irish Simmental Cattle Society/Dairy Fleckvieh herdbook. All animals can be export tested for Northern Ireland and mainland UK directly from the farm. Prendergast comments Ahead of the sale, Maurice Prendergast said: "I had a keen interest in getting into dairying, specifically through the Fleckvieh breed, because of their dual purpose, placidity, high solids etc." "I visited Austria on several occasions in 2021 to source high-genetic value Fleckvieh breeding ...