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BASC has welcomed Defra’s announcement that the new General Licence (GL45), which governs the release of pheasants and red-legged partridges on and around certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs), is currently being reviewed. The current licence conditions are based on a medium level of risk of the occurrence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild… Read more »
The overwhelming majority (80%) of respondents use social media, with 78% using it at least once a day, according to new research undertaken by the Medical Defence Union (MDU). The survey of 1,797 MDU members also revealed that the most popular channels were Facebook which is used by 75% followed by Instagram and YouTube which are… Read more »
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There is ‘little evidence’ to back the view that British veterans of the 1991 Iraq war suffer from so-called Gulf War syndrome, according to the Medical Research Council. The report said ‘there is no unique Gulf War Syndrome.’ Furthermore, the MRC reports concluded: ‘Increasingly detailed medical investigations have detected very few actual abnormalities and no… Read more »
Researchers based in southern China, who contend that the deadly sars virus is linked to the civet cat, claim that important anti-bodies have been found in wild animal traders, who are seemingly immune to the atypical pneumonia. On Friday, scientists announced a near 100 per cent similarity between the sars coronavirus and the one found… Read more »
