Poultry, epidemics

Potassium canrenoate, 174 Potassium mexrenoate, 175 Potassium prorenoate, 175 Poultry, epidemics in, 366 Practolol, 106, 108 Pranolium chloride, 212 Prazepam, 405 Prazosin, 382 Prednisolone, 178 Prednival, 179 Probucol, 126 Procarbazine, 27 Prodolic acid, 459 Prodrug, 48, 50, 89, 198, 363... 

Adenoviruses are responsible for approximately 8% of the viral infection worldwide (Rubin, 1993). Avian adenovirus SMAM-1 was discovered during a poultry epidemic in early 1980s (Ajinkya, 1985) and it is serologically related to avian adenovirus Chick Embryo Lethal Orphan virus (CELO). 

Rosy, delicate cheeks and beauty of complexion depend upon a high-iron diet, but it has to be ferrous iron, Fe-, to be readily used. The body absorbs this kind of iron, which is found in meat, poultry, and fish, three times more readily than iron from eggs, legumes, and whole grains. Iron in fortified foods may help a little, but not much. We live in an age and a country in which eating habits and lifestyles have led to a widespread epidemic of iron deficiency. Some experts blame this epidemic on the new popularity of lite foods and reduction of meat in the diet. About 60 percent of Americans are short of iron. 

It was but an ostensible defeat of that epidemic H5N1 variant. In actuality it silently proliferated spatially, and then catastrophic outbreaks of influenza H5N1 took place among poultry in many countries in Asia during late 2003 and early 2004. At that time, more than 100 million birds in the affected countries either died from the disease or were killed to try to control the outbreak. (Thailand 36 million, Vietnam 36 million, Indonesia 15 million, China 5 million, Pakistan 4 million) (Cambodia, Laos South Korea, and Japan have been less affected, so far.)... 

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