Swine Flu Source Traced to Birds and People; Don’t Blame Pigs
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Pigs, like humans, shed flu viruses in their nasal secretions, Gabriele Landholt, a veterinary researcher at Colorado State University, and colleagues wrote in a 2003 study.
Pigs, like humans, shed flu viruses in their nasal secretions, Gabriele Landholt, a veterinary researcher at Colorado State University, and colleagues wrote in a 2003 study.
The proposed CSU budget for next year spares workers from furloughs but forces about 40 layoffs and requires resident undergraduates to pay 9 percent higher tuition.
“Spring blooms will be less colorful, but everything else should be just fine,” said Catherine Moravec, El Paso County Colorado State University Extension horticulture agent.
The head of CSU’s infectious disease labs says he believes public health officials are acting “totally appropriately” in re-sponding to the H1N1 swine flu outbreak, in large part because it shares hallmarks of the 1918-19 flu epidemic.
U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., said the spread of swine flu stresses the importance of investing in research on infectious diseases. He toured an infectious-disease center at Colorado State University on Saturday.
David Milofsky is a Denver novelist and professor of English at Colorado State University.
Sen. Mark Udall toured Colorado State University’s infectious disease research complex in Fort Collins Saturday. He wanted to get a better idea about what kind of research is being done there.
With so much negative press about the abuses in the apparel industry, Colorado State University professor Molly Eckman wanted to expose the lesser-known positive labor practices.
“Consumers should be aware of the subconscious tendency to focus on the leftmost digits of prices and how this tendency might bias their decision-making,” wrote Kenneth Manning of Colorado State University and David Sprott of Washington State University.
The Democrat tours an infectious disease center at the Fort Collins university Saturday and talks with two professors about the flu. Colorado State researchers study diseases that can be spread from animals to people. They’re called zoonotic diseases.