Animal Welfare Information Center

Tokyo, Japan ? March 31, 2008 Japanese Society for Alternatives to Animal Experiments (JSAAE) http://altweb.jhsph.edu/wc6/

NationalJournal.com - How animal rightists are bringing new meaning to the pledge "with liberty and justice for all." Washington, watch out. http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20100522_1200.php

KDVR.com - Authorities in Colorado's San Luis Valley are trying to solve a series of bizarre, gruesome slaying: cows, mutilated, carved up, left to die in the fields. http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-alien-cows-txt,0,5016258.story

ScienceDaily - After studying the interactions of human and animal populations in Africa, Kathleen Alexander, associate professor of wildlife science in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources, found powerful evidence of how human behavior can influence the emergence of infectious disease in humans and animals.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100429153953.htm

ScienceDaily - National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion diseases. Instead, it resembles a form of human Alzheimer's disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, that damages brain arteries. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100304202246.htm

ScienceDaily (July 27, 2009) — Dog breeds selected to work in visual contact with humans, such as sheep dogs and gun dogs, are better able to comprehend a pointing gesture than those breeds that usually work without direct supervision. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090723194319.htm

SignonSanDiego.com - County animal service officers seized about 500 birds believed to be bred for cockfighting from a Pauma Valley property Thursday, and they served search warrants at a home in Fullerton and a restaurant in Anaheim as part of the investigation. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/may/20/500-birds-seized-in-cockfighting-probe/

ScienceDaily -- New research has found that an experimental Ebola vaccine developed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health protects monkeys against not only the two most lethal Ebola virus species for which it was originally designed, both recognized in 1976, but also against a newer Ebola virus species that was identified in 2007. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100520212613.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

MedicalNewsToday.com - At the annual British Veterinary Association Animal Welfare Foundation (BVA AWF) Discussion Forum delegates voted for the most important animal welfare priorities, which the new Defra ministerial team should focus on. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/189358.php

MedicalNewsToday.com - It's estimated that 4. 7 million people are bitten by dogs every year. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/189127.php

BaltimoreSun.com - Help mother, 11 little mallards through downtown morning rush to Inner Harbor. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-duck-crossing-baltimore-20100519,0,7708924.story

The AVMA will lead a collaborative effort to develop a model animal welfare curriculum for veterinary schools and colleges with funding help from the American Veterinary Medical Foundation. http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/jun10/100601e.asp

The AVMA has revised several of its food animal welfare policies and adopted a policy concerning the use of electromuscular disruption devices (eg, stun guns and devices sold under the trade name Taser) on animals. http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/jun10/100601g.asp

Issue 41, April 2010 - ARS Scientists Work to Reduce Spread of Cattle Viruses http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/ha/han41.htm

NC3Rs.org - This article discusses the implantable and external telemetry systems that are currently available to researchers, and the various ways that telemetry can help to reduce animal use and refine animal research methods. http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/news.asp?id=1240

BBC News - Detailed studies of the ways bats and dolphins use sound to echo-locate could soon help people with cochlear implants listen in stereo. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10104494.stm