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Will milk prices rise? Oct. 10, 2024 Persistent and significant outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza have decimated California’s poultry flocks and as a result hurt the egg supply chain, according the USDA’s most recent egg report.
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Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) said in a news release on Dec. 31 that Monarch Raw Pet Food that was sold at several farmers markets in California contains traces of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus.
—Nicholas Rice, People.com, 4 Jan. 2025
Historically, human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 have often been traced back to live bird markets.
—Will Stone, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
Over half of big cats infected with bird flu, sanctuary says
The sanctuary said animal health officials confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, among more than half of its wild cats as of this month.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2024
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Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) said in a news release on Dec. 31 that Monarch Raw Pet Food that was sold at several farmers markets in California contains traces of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus.
—Nicholas Rice, People.com, 4 Jan. 2025
Historically, human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 have often been traced back to live bird markets.
—Will Stone, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
Over half of big cats infected with bird flu, sanctuary says
The sanctuary said animal health officials confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, among more than half of its wild cats as of this month.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2024
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On July 30, Ray updated her fans again, revealing her diagnosis of infective endocarditis, a severe heart infection.Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 31 July 2024
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Hospitalizations for strokes related to opioid use and infective endocarditis, a life-threatening infection of the heart’s lining and valves, increased in people under 45 from 2006 through 2015, coinciding with the opioid epidemic’s onset, the authors added.Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 23 May 2024
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Second, dairy cows produce large amounts of the virus in milk, which is highly infectious.Kimberly Dodd, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
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Onya’s original lyrics were fire and her energy was infectious.Andy Swift, TVLine, 10 Jan. 2025
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These small but hazardous items, along with other forms of plastic, can contain harmful chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which can have toxic effects on marine life.Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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But when blazes eat up urban areas and ravage buildings — such as the hardware store that burned, with its buckets full of paints and toxic chemicals — the smoke contains all sorts of other harmful particles, including the lead and asbestos that deputies were warned of in Wednesday’s message.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Here a book worth considering is ‘From third world to first’ - Lee Kwan Yew's first person story of transforming Singapore from a pestilential swamp into a metropolis.Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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And to make matters worse, crime rates have risen, demonstrations by taxi drivers have turned violent, and a bungled garbage collection policy has blanketed Luanda with waste and a pestilential stench.Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2015
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Many advocacy organizations have also warned that age verification laws that require users to provide their government IDs pose serious privacy threats, while not actually protecting minors from harmful online content.James Factora, Them, 6 Jan. 2025
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As a result, regulators will introduce more stringent rules and frameworks aimed at curbing the harmful effects of false information.Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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The bacteria survived, protected and fed by the fungus — and the fungus scored a poisonous partner.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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New Zealand stone flies are evolving away from mimicking poisonous insects because deforestation has left them nothing to mimic.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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This is objectively true, and even the most virulent Kyle stan cannot object.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
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The best-selling novel (and Apple TV+ series) Lessons in Chemistry recently dramatized the often virulent misogyny that existed in scientific settings; Joy looks at a subtler dynamic, in which the contributions that women played in scientific discovery was downplayed.Vogue, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
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The decision, lauded by consumer advocacy groups, comes a full 25 years after scientists at the agency determined that rats fed large amounts of the artificial color additive were much more likely to develop malignant thyroid tumors than rats who weren’t given the food coloring.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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Their mother, Noel Mickelson, died in 2016 from sepsis caused by bed sores, and a malignant tumor, according to Shannon Amos.Elizabeth Maline, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Pathogenic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathogenic. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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