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Pig ... fat fish!
Medicine - Health

Pig ... fat fish!

Researchers have cloned pigs with ... fish fat, not lard! Bacon and pork chops will soon be good for the heart. But now the benefits from research are published in the I…

December 14, 2018
Pig cells can heal diabetes
Medicine - Health

Pig cells can heal diabetes

US scientists say in a decade the cells that produce insulin from pigs will be transplanted into the human body to treat type 1 diabetes. A research team from the Univer…

December 14, 2018
Stop importing Chinese pigs
Medicine - Health

Stop importing Chinese pigs

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has just agreed with the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to suspend the import of Chinese pigs and pi…

December 14, 2018
Salbutamol in dirty pork exceeds 195,000 times
Food safety

Salbutamol in dirty pork exceeds 195,000 times

According to calculations, if pigs are leaned for 13 days, salbutamol residues in pork are 195,000 times higher than the permitted amount. This is a terrible number!

December 14, 2018
Detection of H1N1 flu virus in animals
Flu epidemic

Detection of H1N1 flu virus in animals

Scientific experts at the University of California, Los Angeles - UCLA and its colleagues discovered the first evidence of the H1N1 virus in animals in Africa.

December 14, 2018
China detected influenza A / H1N1 in dogs
Flu epidemic

China detected influenza A / H1N1 in dogs

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture has just received a report from China Agricultural University, saying it has found two cases of dogs infected with influenza A / H1N1…

December 14, 2018