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BEIJING (Reuters) – China had culled 2,310 hogs in east China’s Anhui province as of Sept 2 in response to African swine fever, an agricultural ministry official told state radio on Monday. China reported a new case...

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Ministry of Agriculture said on Sunday that 134 hogs had died from African swine fever in Xuancheng city of eastern Anhui province, bringing the total number of outbreaks in China over the...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – About one in eight essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries may be fake or contain dangerous mixes of ingredients that put patients’ lives at risk, a research review...

By Tamara Mathias (Reuters Health) – Smartphone apps that remind heart patients to take their pills could help them stick to prescribed regimens, an Australian study suggests. Heart patients often take up to four...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Limiting time spent on specific drills during practice could help reduce head impacts among U.S. college football players, researchers say. Shortening the highest-risk drills by a few...

By Roch Bouka BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) – Congo Republic will launch a country-wide vaccination campaign to control an outbreak of yellow fever near the border with the Angolan enclave of Cabinda, the health ministry said on...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – China has suspended transportation of live hogs from infected provinces to prevent the spread of African swine fever and will shut all live hog markets in the infected provinces, its agriculture...