SCHAUMBURG, Ill.
— Losing a pet is traumatic for the animal and its owner. A lost dog or cat faces a world full of uncertainty and danger, one of possible injury, starvation or death. Pet owners, many of whom have never lost a pet before, may wonder if they will ever be reunited.
Two studies published [...]
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State legislatures are fast becoming battlegrounds over the practice of veterinary medicine. Legislation addressing a range of veterinary-related issues, from animal confinement to complementary and alternative medicine, is becoming increasingly common. Last year alone, more than 225 animal welfare bills were considered in legislatures across the country.
Gone are the days when [...]
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The Food and Drug Administration has found that meat or milk from clones of adult cattle, swine, and goats—and offspring of these clones—is as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals.
The agency recently requested public comment on three documents regarding the safety of animal cloning—a draft risk assessment, a proposed risk management plan, [...]
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Backgrounders on African swine fever and classical swine fever are now available by visiting the AVMA Web site, www.avma.org, and clicking on Backgrounders under the Reference bar.
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) classifies ASF and CSF as notifiable diseases because of their potential for rapid spread and substantial impact on [...]
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Two South Korean computer programmers have been arrested on suspicion of sending out 1.6 billion spam e-mail messages in violation of the country’s commerce laws, police said on Tuesday.
The two men, one aged 20 and the other 26, are suspected of sending out the unsolicited e-mail messages between September and December [...]
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The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed.
Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of Internet users at a time into [...]
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Priceline.com, Travelocity.com and Cingular Wireless have settled over charges that they used secret adware Internet software programs as marketing tools, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Monday.
This is the first time marketers have been held responsible for ads displayed through adware, the software that automatically displays promotional material, Cuomo’s [...]
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Twenty-six computer tapes containing Internal Revenue Service taxpayer data have gone missing from City Hall in Kansas City, Mo.
The tapes were originally shipped to the City Hall building in August as part of an information-sharing agreement between the IRS and the municipality of Kansas City, according to The Kansas [...]
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WASHINGTON–The Bush administration hasn’t settled on what data it would like Internet service providers to retain about their subscribers or for how long, a U.S. Department of Justice attorney said Tuesday.
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales made it clear last fall that he planned to seek national legislation requiring the controversial [...]
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CNN can promote its advertisement-laced online presence however it likes during broadcasts, but new federal rules mean TV channels like Nickelodeon that cater to children no longer enjoy the same freedom.
The Federal Communications Commission decreed that during shows geared toward children age 12 and under, cable and broadcast operators may [...]
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