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Churchill County Water
Quality/Polonium-210
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Animal
Rabies Update
Animal Rabies Update
From January through
October 2003, the Reno Laboratory performed 269 rabies tests on the
following animals: Dogs-109, Cats-74, Skunks-5, Raccoons-10, Rodents-7,
Coyote-7, and Bats-57. Of this
total, Washoe County had 4 positive bats and Clark County had 1 positive
bat.
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PASTEURELLOSIS
Pasteurellosis Study in Nevada’s Domestic and Bighorn Sheep Populations
Underway
The Animal Disease & Food Safety Laboratory
personnel are working with the Nevada Department of Wildlife, UNR and
cooperating range-sheep producers in a study to determine the level of
Pasturella haemolytica. present in the respiratory tract of
both domestic and bighorn sheep and the relationship between them, if any
genetically. This is the first year of a three-year study. To date,
bighorn flocks in three southern and central and Northern Nevada locations
and six large commercial sheep operations in the northern part of the
State have been sampled. When the research is completed, it should result
in a sound, scientific evaluation of the epidemiology of P haemolytica
in bighorn and domestic sheep.
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E. coli
FSIS Sampling for Ground Beef Shows E. coli 0157:H7 Downward Trend
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has
released data showing a drop in the number of E. coli O157:H7
positive samples found in beef collected so far in 2003 compared with past
years. Of samples collected and analyzed through August 31, 0.32% tested
positive for E. coli 0157:H7, down from 0.78% in 2002 and 0.84% in
2001.
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West Nile Virus |
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2004 West Nile Virus Report |
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