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India – Imported cosmetics may be fewer with stringent control on animal testing – The Times of India
Last year, India banned testing of cosmetic products and their ingredients on animals in India. However, companies were still found importing products, which had been tested on animals abroad.
The latest move seeking no objection from the supplying country and an undertaking from the original manufacturer of such imported products is to ensure that these products are not tested on animals at all, said an official with the office of the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI).
via Imported cosmetics may be fewer with stringent control on animal testing – The Times of India.
Vomiting virus that emerged in southern China now spreading around the world: Shanghaiist
Cases of GII.17 have already emerged in the US, South America, Europe and Africa, scientists wrote in a paper which accompanied new Japanese research.
While there’s no medicine available yet to treat or prevent GII.17, a pharmaceutical company based in Osaka, Japan “has the most advanced vaccine in development”.
Hope.
Norovirus symptoms, including fever, vomiting and diarrhea, typically last only a couple of days and infected food workers are usually the source of the outbreak, the report said.
via Vomiting virus that emerged in southern China now spreading around the world: Shanghaiist.
Dementia patients forced to rely on unpaid carers, poll says
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via Dementia patients forced to rely on unpaid carers, poll says.
The Real Lives at Risk in the Supreme Court’s Health Care Decision | National Women’s Law Center
To say that I’m ecstatic about the Supreme Court ruling is an understatement. Not only for myself—that I get to keep my health care and finish cancer treatment—but also for millions of others that get to keep their insurance. Who knows how many people, just today, will be diagnosed with a life threatening disease. Now that SCOTUS has once again ruled that the ACA is the law of the land, perhaps our legislators will work together to make health care better for everyone instead of waging a futile war against this law. This was not a victory for either political party, it is a victory for America. I am so happy and feel a huge weight has been lifted.
It’s because of the brave voices of people like LaDonna that we better understand the importance of this law – and why we’re so grateful we can keep it.
via The Real Lives at Risk in the Supreme Court’s Health Care Decision | National Women’s Law Center.
Ebola virus: wild and domestic animals, plants and insects…
Initial Ebola virus (EBOV) infection of humans is a rare zoonotic spillover event.
- Duiker (Cephalophus sp.; an antelope)
- Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
- Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
- Cynomolgus macaque monkey (Macaca fascicularis)
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomops franqueti)
- Hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus)
- Little collared fruit bat (Myonycteris torquata)
- Domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)
- Peter’s lesser epauletted fruit bat (Micropterus pusillus; fruit-eating)
- Angolan free-tailed bat (Mops condylurus; insect-eating)
- Giant roundleaf bat (Hipposideros gigas; insect-eating)
- Egyptian fruit bat (Roussetus aegyptiacus; fruit-eating)
- Geoffrey’s rousette (Rousettus amplexicaudatus; a bat species; fruit-eating)
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus derbianus)
- Leroy EM, Kumulungui B, Pourrut X, et al. Fruit bats as reservoirs of Ebola virus. Nature 2005;438:575-6.
- Plowright RK, Eby P, Hudson PJ, et al. Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover. Proc Biol Sci 2015;282:20142124.
- Olson SH, Reed P, Cameron KN, et al. Dead or alive: animal sampling during Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in humans. Emerg Health Threats J 2012;5
- Lahm SA, Kombila M, Swanepoel R, Barnes RF. Morbidity and mortality of wild animals in relation to outbreaks of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Gabon, 1994-2003. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2007;101:64-78.
- Marsh GA, Haining J, Robinson R, et al. Ebola Reston virus infection of pigs: clinical significance and transmission potential. J Infect Dis 2011;204 Suppl 3:S804-9.
- Gonzalez JP, Herbreteau V, Morvan J, Leroy EM. Ebola virus circulation in Africa: a balance between clinical expression and epidemiological silence. Bull Soc Pathol Exot 2005;98:210-7.
- Allela L, Boury O, Pouillot R, et al. Ebola virus antibody prevalence in dogs and human risk. Emerg Infect Dis 2005;11:385-90.
- Weingartl HM, Nfon C, Kobinger G. Review of Ebola virus infections in domestic animals. Dev Biol (Basel) 2013;135:211-8.
- Stansfield SK, Scribner CL, Kaminski RM, Cairns T, McCormick JB, Johnson KM. Antibody to Ebola virus in guinea pigs: Tandala, Zaire. J Infect Dis 1982;146:483-6.
- Connolly BM, Steele KE, Davis KJ, et al. Pathogenesis of experimental Ebola virus infection in guinea pigs. J Infect Dis 1999;179 Suppl 1:S203-17.
- Why Dallas Won’t Kill The Dog Of The Texas Nurse With Ebola. Business Insider, 2014. (Accessed 27/4/2015, at http://bitly.com/1IxqyQI )
- Starting today, Dallas Animal Services will begin testing Nina Pham’s year-old dog Bentley for Ebola. The Dallas Morning News, 2014. (Accessed 17/4/2015, at http://bitly.com/1GSGqbU.)
- EBOLAVIRUS, ANIMAL RESERVOIR (05): USA, DOG, NOT. 2014. (Accessed 01/05/2015, at http://bitly.com/1IxqAIf )
- Barrette RW, Metwally SA, Rowland JM, et al. Discovery of swine as a host for the Reston ebolavirus. Science 2009;325:204-6.
- Rouquet P, Froment JM, Bermejo M, et al. Wild animal mortality monitoring and human Ebola outbreaks, Gabon and Republic of Congo, 2001-2003. Emerg Infect Dis 2005;11:283-90.
- Kudoyarova-Zubavichene NM, Sergeyev NN, Chepurnov AA, Netesov SV. Preparation and use of hyperimmune serum for prophylaxis and therapy of Ebola virus infections. J Infect Dis 1999;179 Suppl 1:S218-23.
- Bray M, Davis K, Geisbert T, Schmaljohn C, Huggins J. A mouse model for evaluation of prophylaxis and therapy of Ebola hemorrhagic fever. J Infect Dis 1998;178:651-61.
- Ebihara H, Takada A, Kobasa D, et al. Molecular determinants of Ebola virus virulence in mice. PLoS Pathog 2006;2:e73.
- Geisbert TW, Young HA, Jahrling PB, Davis KJ, Kagan E, Hensley LE. Mechanisms underlying coagulation abnormalities in ebola hemorrhagic fever: overexpression of tissue factor in primate monocytes/macrophages is a key event. J Infect Dis 2003;188:1618-29.
- Turell MJ, Bressler DS, Rossi CA. Short report: lack of virus replication in arthropods after intrathoracic inoculation of Ebola Reston virus. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1996;55:89-90.
- Swanepoel R, Leman PA, Burt FJ, et al. Experimental inoculation of plants and animals with Ebola virus. Emerg Infect Dis 1996;2:321-5.
- Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Sudan, 1976. Report of a WHO/International Study Team. Bull World Health Organ 1978;56:247-70.
US Supreme Court upholds tax subsidies for Obamacare
The US Supreme Court has decided to retain tax subsidies crucial to the implementation of Obamacare. The decision would enable millions of US citizens to continue to profit from low-cost health insurance.
Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more? | TED Talk | TED.com
Penicillin changed everything. Infections that had previously killed were suddenly quickly curable. Yet as Maryn McKenna shares in this sobering talk, we’ve squandered the advantages afforded us by that and later antibiotics. Drug-resistant bacteria mean we’re entering a post-antibiotic world — and it won’t be pretty. There are, however, things we can do … if we start right now.
via Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more? | TED Talk | TED.com.
Total of Indiana residents testing positive for TB rises to 85 | Vaccine News
A spike in HIV and Heroine; now TB – what’s going on Indiana? The Indiana State Department of Health said on Friday that the number of positive tuberculosis (TB) skin-tested individuals has increased from 54 to 85.
As of Friday, all of these patients have been tied to a student recently diagnosed with TB. The student is now quarantined and receiving treatment.
In addition, a second TB patient, who reported having TB symptoms, as well as abnormal chest X-rays, has been identified. A third person without symptoms, but with an abnormal chest X-ray, also has been identified.
via Total of Indiana residents testing positive for TB rises to 85 | Vaccine News.
Creative people are more likely to suffer from mental illness, study claims
Painters, musicians, writers and dancers are 25 per cent more likely to carry the gene variants than their non-creative peers, new research suggests![]()
Oops… ya think it might be that others simply do not understand them and think they are odd? Being misunderstood and put down, can be a downer.
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via Creative people are more likely to suffer from mental illness, study claims.



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