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February 12, 2019

Horseracing to resume in Britain after equine flu contained

Horseracing in Britain is to resume on Wednesday with strict biosecurity protocols after an outbreak of equine flu.

February 07, 2019

Horse racing in UK off until Wednesday at earliest over flu

Horse racing in Britain has been canceled until at least Wednesday over an outbreak of equine flu. The British Horseracing ...

February 07, 2019

Horse racing canceled in Britain over flu outbreak

Horse racing has been canceled in Britain on Thursday due to an equine flu outbreak. The British Horseracing Authority said ...

February 04, 2019

Poland says no sick cows slaughtered; EU begins inspection

Polish government officials denied that sick cows were slaughtered for meat in Poland as European Union investigators began ...

February 01, 2019

Polish envoy to Slovakia summoned over tainted meat scandal

Slovakia's agriculture minister summoned the Polish ambassador to Bratislava on Friday over a scandal in which meat from sick ...

January 31, 2019

Poland exported 5,500 pounds of meat from sick cows to EU

Thousands of pounds of meat from sick cows who were slaughtered illegally in Poland were exported to 10 other European Union ...

January 29, 2019

Food industry sway over public health gets new scrutiny

The tweet from a group that finances development in Latin America was direct: Sodas do not offer beauty or joy, just a lot ...

January 03, 2019

Romania maternity hospital hit by superbug to reopen

Romania's health minister says a maternity hospital in the capital where 45 babies were diagnosed with a drug-resistant ...

December 29, 2018

Congo's top archbishop pleads for peace on eve of election

Congo's top archbishop on Saturday urged peace on the eve of the country's long-delayed presidential election , saying ...

December 25, 2018

Report: Carbon monoxide fumes kill French tourists in Italy

An Italian news agency is reporting that two French tourists have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in northwest Italy.

December 09, 2018

Hunger, lice, filth: Moroccan camp shows migrant challenges

As Morocco prepares to host the signing of a landmark global migration agreement, hundreds of migrants are languishing in a ...

December 06, 2018

Dutch court refuses to order criminal tobacco investigation

A Dutch appeals court on Thursday refused to order public prosecutors to open a criminal investigation of tobacco companies, ...

December 04, 2018

Italy's health minister sacks public health advisers

Italy's health minister has removed 30 doctors and scientists from the ministry's public health advisory committee as part ...

November 30, 2018

Romania shuts hospital after babies diagnosed with superbug

Romanian health authorities on Friday temporarily closed a maternity hospital in the capital after 13 babies born there ...

November 30, 2018

UN: Polio remains global emergency, eradication at risk

The World Health Organization says the ongoing attempt to eradicate polio remains a global emergency amid an increase in ...

November 29, 2018

Climate change is more extensive and worse than once thought

Climate scientists missed a lot about a quarter century ago when they predicted how bad global warming would be. They missed ...

November 26, 2018

Congo starts first-ever trial testing Ebola drugs

Congo has begun the first-ever trial to test the effectiveness and safety of four experimental Ebola drugs, the first time ...

November 23, 2018

Swine fever adds to China's economic headaches

Chinese pig farmers, already reeling from rising feed costs in Beijing's tariff fight with U.S. President Donald Trump, face ...

November 15, 2018

Former Nazi guard testifies he wasn't involved in killings

A former Nazi concentration camp guard on trial on hundreds of counts of accessory to murder has testified he was aware that ...