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Porcine Circovirus - transmission in semen.

2009-12-09T20:50:16Z

Pat's Note: This is the probable main method of spread internally and
from Britain worldwide in 1998-1999.
The only pig export testing station in Great Britain (in Northern
Ireland) was closed because of circovirus contamination, but exports
continued with clean health certificates.
It explain's MAFF - Defra's vets' obsession with food movements as a

Porcine Circovirus mutation in Kansas

2009-12-09T20:40:06Z

Pat's Note: It would seem that there has been a porcine circovirus
mutation in Kansas.
[link]
December 2, 2009 - Harry Snelson
Dr. Steve Henry has been working with diagnosticians at Kansas State
University to investigate an on-going case of Porcine Circovirus
Associated Disease (PCVAD) in well-vaccinated animals. The affected

Who's going to open the floodgates?

2009-12-08T18:53:45Z

Today's 'Independent' carries a report headlined 'Sea levels may rise three
times more than first thought'. It says that, according to one Dr Rahmstorf,
earlier predictions made in a study he published in 2007 were
underestimates, because
<quote>
this earlier study was based on previous sea level rises that had failed to

MRSA - Danes curb vets selling antibiotics.

2009-12-08T09:18:12Z

Pat's Note: A mass of new information from a vet friendly source
confirming how serious the situation has become and, incidentally,
telling us how the Danes exercise control over veterinary greed.
Witnesses to the Dutch Parliament are obviously protected from being
intimidated by State Veterinary criminals running terror and libel

Dutch Parliament - MRSA - Ban on veterinary prescription of antibiotics

2009-12-07T10:30:27Z

Pat's Note: The Dutch take veterinary over-prescription of antibiotics
to livestock seriously and understand the reason - veterinary greed.
We all know that self-regulation does not work.
[link]
Veteriarians call for self-regulation on antibiotics

CO2 reduction strategy urban myths

2009-12-05T11:09:27Z

Oh No <N...@charlesfrancis.wanadoo.c o.uk> writes
Charles! I am surprised at you!
Take basic energy source (fossil, nuclear, sustainable whatever).
-50% Turn it into electricity (gas+steam)
-10% Transmission losses
-10% To convert to correct voltage etc for battery
-20% Battery in-out losses
-10% Electric motor losses.

The definitive CO2 thread....

2009-12-05T10:25:14Z

As I know very little about the subject I feel fully qualified to open
the discussion:-)
Perhaps someone could kick off with the broad facts about CO2
production: be it natural or man made.
The Daily Telegraph tells me that air travel contributes 3% to the total
but doesn't explain if that is 3% of human output or?

Climategate humiliates Brown

2009-12-04T19:28:41Z

Climategate grabs the headlines. British scientists have screwed up
Copenhagen by faking it up. Maryn McKenna has given some interesting
explanations why journaists, with rare exceptions, no longer expose
scandals. What is true abroad is even more true for Britain
So, naturally, the latest scandal gets more news coverage outside

Porcine circovirus may trigger Crohn's diseas

2009-12-04T10:28:03Z

Pat's Note: It would not surprise me one little bit. Circoviruses are
dangerous.
Manitoba pig herds are among the sickest in the world. We now know
that following the re-examination of stored samples that it was
probably the earliest region to have had a PMWS epidemic. The live
export of pigs to Britain (probably N.Ireland in 1998) was the cause

MRSA in pigs - hot from Westminster

2009-12-03T19:13:40Z

Pat's Note:
Had the question been worded slightly differently, they would have
been forced to admit that MRSA st398 has been found in Scotland in
children a couple of years ago and was covered up for 6 months. They
went so far as to say they could find no connection with pigs, when
they did own up.

Worth watching, Mt St Helens Lecture

2009-12-03T10:43:57Z

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Swine Flu - pigs - Norfolk.

2009-12-02T16:55:49Z

[link]
2 December 2009 | By Alistair Driver
THE H1N1 swine flu virus has been confirmed in a herd of pigs in
Norfolk...

Honest Food Labelling website

2009-12-02T12:26:09Z

Dear UKBA - Some of you have probably already seen this in today's
FWI. The announcement of the creation of a new UK website that
focuses on Honest Food Labeling in your supermarkets.
It appears to be devoted to the UK manufacturers and your retailers.
So that's a good thing.
Maybe we need to pick up on this over here, too.

MRSA in Pigs Two reports

2009-12-01T10:43:38Z

[link]
Italy - Research into pig disease
01 Dec 2009
The first E.U.-wide survey on M.R.S.A. (Methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus) in breeding pigs has been published by the
European Food Safety Authority (E.F.S.A.).

Lancet reports Pig Disease hitting pig workers

2009-12-01T10:42:06Z

Pat's Note: Over the years, I have recorded this developing story many
times. It's obviously real and it sounds like circovirus is involved.
[link]
Array of tests clarified nature of illness
11/30/2009 9:00:02 AM
By Jeff Hansel