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PRO/PL> Pink rot, potato – Australia: (TS)
Other Plant Disease -- AustraliaOne of the most significant challenges [potato] producers face is the fight against pink rot. The soil-borne pathogen can wreak havoc on entire paddocks and render them unsuitable for cultivation. It causes rapid rotting of potato tubers, in-ground and in storage. It can result in significant yield losses, product downgrade, and rejection. Some paddocks experience a regular loss from 5 to 30 per cent even when recommended fungicide treatments are applied.A new project Read more [...]
DG Digest: USPS Offers Two Pub. 52 Change Proposals
The nation enters the second week of August with most of the country still struggling to contain the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Be sure you, your family, and your workplace colleagues do the best you can to help stop the spread and protect everyone’s health. There was a variety of news this week. The Postal Service...
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The new DG Exchange: Your connection to the Dangerous Goods supply chain community
Not long ago, a longtime friend and colleague told us, “I wish the Dangerous Goods Symposium could somehow happen all year long.” That idea – a year-round place where supply chain and business professionals can connect and share their questions, insights and experience about Dangerous Goods—was the inspiration for the DG Exchange. Launching August 10,...
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Stand-Down for Falls in Its 7th Year: Fatal Falls are Falling
The National Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction was launched in 2012 through the NORA Construction Sector Council with leadership from NIOSH, OSHA and CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training. Each year as part of the Campaign, safety stand-downs are held by employers across the country to focus on fall prevention. The 2020 National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls is set for September 14–18 to coincide with Construction Safety Week. Individual safety stand downs Read more [...]
Seven injured in Socar chemical plant fire in Azerbaijan – Upstream Online
Seven injured in Socar chemical plant fire in Azerbaijan Upstream Online
CSB Chairman Issues Statement on Beirut Explosion, Fire – Powder Bulk Solids
CSB Chairman Issues Statement on Beirut Explosion, Fire Powder Bulk Solids
The Latest: UN releasing $9 million to help Beirut hospitals – New Jersey News Network
The Latest: UN releasing $9 million to help Beirut hospitals New Jersey News Network
Good news for York' City Hall, but building remains closed – York Daily Record
Good news for York’ City Hall, but building remains closed York Daily Record
Orica defends safety at its ammonium nitrate facility – Australian Times
Orica defends safety at its ammonium nitrate facility Australian Times
PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza (53): Viet Nam (TV) backyard, HPAI H5N1, OIE
Avian Influenza H5N1 -- VietnamInformation received on 7 Aug 2020 from Dr. Dong Pham Van, director general, chief veterinary officer, Department of Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hanoi, Viet NamSummaryReport type: immediate notificationDate of start of the event: 23 Jul 2020Date of confirmation of the event: 25 Jul 2020Reason for notification: recurrence of a listed diseaseDate of previous occurrence: 6 Jun 2020Manifestation of disease: clinical diseaseCausal agent: Read more [...]
PRO/AH/EDR> Fowl typhoid – Mexico: (HI) poultry, OIE
Typhoid -- MexicoInformation received on 6 Aug 2020 from Dr Gay Gutiérrez Juan, Director General de Salud Animal, National Health, Food Safety, and Food Quality Service (SENASICA), Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER), Ciudad de Mexico, MexicoSummaryReport type: immediate notificationDate of start of the event: 23 Jul 2020Date of confirmation of the event: 4 Aug 2020Reason for notification: reoccurrence of a listed diseaseDate of previous occurrence: November Read more [...]
PRO/AH/EDR> Crimean-Congo hem. fever – Asia (04): Kazakhstan (SH)
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever -- KazakhstanA Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) case has been confirmed in a resident of Shymkent, Kazakhstan, near the border of Uzbekistan.According to local media, "The citizen was at field work on the territory of the Turkestan region, upon arrival he was at home and after a few days he began to develop clinical manifestations. At home, he did the treatment himself and on the 3rd day of the disease called an ambulance and was hospitalized in the city infectious Read more [...]
PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (352): incubation period, pediatric infections, WHO, global
COVID-19 -- ChinaAbstract--------We propose a novel low-cost and accurate method to estimate the incubation distribution of COVID-19. We have conducted a cross-sectional and forward follow-up study by identifying those pre-symptomatic individuals at their time of departure from Wuhan and then following them until their symptoms developed. The renewal process is adopted by considering the incubation period as a renewal and the duration between departure and symptoms onset as a forward time. Such a Read more [...]
PRO/AH/EDR> Salmonellosis, st Newport – USA (05): CDC, onions, recall
Salmonella -- United StatesAlaska / 6 Alabama / 1 Arizona / 14 California / 76 Colorado / 14 Connecticut / 2 Delaware / 1 Florida / 3 Georgia / 1 Idaho / 26 Illinois / 41 Indiana / 2 Iowa / 20 Kansas / 2 Kentucky / 1 Maine / 4 Maryland / 1 Massachusetts / 2 Michigan / 36 Minnesota / 14 Mississippi / 2 Missouri / 6 Montana / 52 Nebraska / 10 Nevada / 8 New Hampshire / 1 New Jersey / 2 New Mexico / 1 New York / 5 North Carolina / 5 North Dakota / 8 Ohio / 8 Read more [...]
PRO/AH/EDR> Jamestown Canyon virus – USA (03): (NH)
Other Human Disease -- United StatesThe state has identified a 2nd case of Jamestown Canyon virus [this year (2020)], an infection transmitted by mosquitoes, in Bow.The person, identified only as an adult, "was not hospitalized and is doing well, but experienced fever and mild neurological symptoms," the Department of Health and Human Services said in a press release.This is the 2nd detection of JCV in the state this year [2020]. JCV is transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito. There are no Read more [...]
PRO/AH/EDR> Plague – China (03): (NM)
Plague -- ChinaAuthorities in a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia have quarantined a village after a resident there who had caught an intestinal type of plague died, the health commission of the city said on Thu 6 Aug 2020.Cases of plague are not uncommon in China, although outbreaks have become increasingly rare. From 2009 to 2018, China reported 26 cases and 11 deaths.Baotou city has sealed off the village where the dead patient lived and quarantined the patient's close contacts, who Read more [...]
PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (351): healthcare workers, meat plant, countries, WHO, global
COVID-19 -- Worldwide/UnknownThe latest infections raise to 9 the number of Kurdish Red Crescent staff in northeastern Syria who have contracted the virus, a volunteer at the organisation told AFP news agency, asking not to be identified.Nine years of war have battered healthcare provision across Syria, but the situation in the northeast is particularly critical, as the Kurdish authorities have been left to cope with the coronavirus pandemic largely unaided.This has raised fears that any outbreak Read more [...]
PRO/AH/EDR> Severe fever w/ thrombocytopenia synd – China (03): (JS, AH)
Fever -- ChinaA total of 37 people in East China's Jiangsu Province have been diagnosed with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) this year [2020], a disease caused by the novel bunyavirus which is spread by ticks. Experts have warned that the virus can be transmitted from person to person.Based on previous cases, the virus can be transmitted from infected animals or people to others via blood, respiratory tract and wounds, Sheng Jifang, an expert on the novel bunyavirus and director Read more [...]
PRO/AH/EDR> Plague – USA (03): (NM) septicemic, fatal
Plague -- United StatesThe New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) reports the death of a man in his 20s from Rio Arriba County of septicemic plague, the 1st human plague death in New Mexico in 2020, and the 2nd human plague case overall. The Rio Arriba County man died after being hospitalized. An environmental investigation will take place at the person's home to look for ongoing risk to immediate family members, neighbors, and others in the surrounding community.Plague is a bacterial disease of Read more [...]
PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (350): USA (TX) animal, cat
COVID-19 -- United StatesTexas A&M researchers from the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) have identified 2 cats in Brazos County [where Texas A&M University is located] that tested positive for COVID-19. The team is working to understand how pets living in "high-risk" households may be impacted by COVID-19 by sampling pets, dogs and cats, whose owners have tested positive.CVMBS associate professor of epidemiology Dr. Sarah Hamer is leading the team."We're one Read more [...]
PRO/AH/EDR> Ebola update (38): Congo DR (EQ)
Ebola — DR Congo
PRO/AH/EDR> Bluetongue – Europe (05): Greece (EM) sheep, goat, st 4, OIE
Bluetongue -- GreeceInformation received [and dated] on 7 Aug 2020 from Mrs. Chrysoula Dile, Head, Animal Health Directorate, Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Athens, GreeceSummaryReport type: Immediate notificationDate of start of the event: 27 Jul 2020Date of confirmation of the event: 30 Jul 2020Reason for notification: Recurrence of a listed diseaseDate of previous occurrence: 29 Feb 2016Manifestation of disease: Clinical diseaseCausal agent: Bluetongue virusSerotype: 4Nature of Read more [...]
