Swapping meat for seafood provides greater nutrition and reduced climate impacts, study reveals
Researchers from Dalhousie University in Canada calculated the nutritional density and climate impacts of different sources of fish and compared them to popular meats like beef and pork. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Has the Chinese wet market at centre of Covid origin secretly RE-OPENED? Images suggest so
The images, taken from Google Earth, show rows of skinned beasts dangling from drying racks at the controversial Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. It was shut down in January 2020. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What is raw sewage doing to the UK ’s rivers and seas? – podcast
Holidaymakers heading to British beaches and rivers were faced with a very unpleasant problem this summer – raw sewage. The sewage system usually carries rainwater and dirty wastewater from bathrooms and kitchens to treatment works but during ‘exceptional events’ such as heavy rainfall, when it is likely to be overwhelmed, raw sewage can be diverted and discharged into rivers and seas.Available data shows that in 2021, water companies released untreated sewage into waterways for 2.7m hours – with many discharge pipe monitors not working or left uninstalled. Madeleine Finlay speaks to reporter Helena Horton about wh...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 30, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Produced and presented by Madeleine Finlay with Helena Horton, additional production by Jacqui Wakefield, sound design by Rudi Zygadlo, and the executive producer was Max Sanderson Tags: Environment Pollution Water UK news Source Type: news
Covid in China: Hippo, fish and crabs get PCR tests
Officials in the city of Xiamen have ordered PCR tests for seafood after some 40 people got Covid. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - August 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A sustainable seafood alternative: lab-grown fish sticks
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Bluu Seafood COO Chris Dammann about the company's new cultivated cell fish products - fish sticks and fish balls. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - August 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Angela Rasmussen on Covid-19: ‘This origins discussion is the worst thing about Twitter’
Did Sars-CoV-2 emerge from a Huanan market stall or a lab? For the American virologist, who has been abused online for defending a ‘natural’ origin, the evidence is clearAngela Rasmussen studies the interactions between hosts and pathogens and how they shape disease. Before the pandemic, she worked on the emerging viruses that cause Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers), Ebola, dengue and avian flu. Then, when Covid-19 erupted,the American virologist, who works at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, was drawn into the debate over where it came from. She has beenamong the most vocal scientists on Twitter defendi...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 13, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Laura Spinney Tags: Coronavirus Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science Culture Source Type: news
Why Animals Are Less Vulnerable Than Humans to BA.5 and Omicron
For more than two years, COVID-19 has had its way with humanity. But humans are not the only victims of the virus. The disease, which leading theories still indicate spilled over from animals to humans in a Wuhan, China seafood wholesale market, has now infected pets and animals from farms, laboratories, and zoos. It has also found its way into the wild, infecting many non-domesticated species.
COVID-19 now appears to be widespread throughout the animal kingdom, according to a recent study in the journal Scientific Data that provides the first global case count of COVID-19 cases in animals. But there’s good news: ot...
Source: TIME: Health - August 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
HR Leadership Award Winner 2022: Brandie Hogg, Pacific Seafood
"My role is to engage, inspire, nurture and support team members and be strategic business partners with company leaders so they can lead a team to excel. ” (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - July 28, 2022 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Denise Szott Source Type: news
Two Studies Further Confirm COVID's Origins in Wuhan Market
WEDNESDAY, July 27, 2022 – Two new studies strongly suggest that COVID-19 most likely began with a jump to humans from animals sold at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China.
It’s not clear from what type of animal the virus jumped to a... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - July 27, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
New studies bolster theory the coronavirus emerged from the wild, not a Chinese lab
The research, published by the journal Science, shows that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was likely the early epicenter. #epicenter (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New studies agree that animals sold at Wuhan market are most likely what started Covid-19 pandemic
In June, the World Health Organization recommended that scientists continue to research all possible origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, including a lab leak. Two newly published studies take totally different approaches but arrive at the same conclusion: The Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, was most likely the epicenter for the coronavirus. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - July 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientists hone argument that coronavirus came from Wuhan market
The coronavirus pandemic began in separate viral spillovers from live animals sold and butchered in late 2019 in a Wuhan, China, seafood market, according to two papers published Tuesday in the journal Science. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - July 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Joel Achenbach Source Type: news
Scientists confirm COVID tied to wildlife sales at Chinese market
An international team of researchers reports today that live animals sold at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, were the likely source of the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed 6.4 million lives since it began nearly three years ago.“Rigorously combining all available evidence surrounding the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 clearly demonstrates that the virus jumped at least twice from animals to humans at the Huanan market,” saidDr. Marc Suchard, a UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of biostatistics. “Identifying multiple transmission events finally puts to rest a single origin from elsewher...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 26, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
3 Reasons to Avoid Farmed Salmon
Not so long ago, Atlantic salmon was an abundant wild species. Born in the rivers of northeastern United States and Canada, after a couple years in freshwater they embarked on an epic migration, navigating 2,000 miles across the Atlantic to feed and mature off western Greenland. Millions of salmon travelled up to 60 miles a day, fending off predators and feeding on zooplankton and small fish. When the time came, instinct and the earth’s magnetic fields led these magnificent fish back to spawn in the precise rivers of their birth.
Today, wild salmon are an endangered species, gone from most rivers in the U.S. There ar...
Source: TIME: Health - July 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins Tags: Uncategorized freelance Sustainability Source Type: news
Go fish: Danish scientists work on fungi-based seafood substitute
Team call in Michelin-starred restaurant to help crack challenge of mimicking texture of seafoodFrom plant-based meat that “bleeds” to milk grown in a lab, fake meats and dairy have come a long way in recent years. But there is another alternative that scientists are training their sights on, one with the most challenging texture to recreate of all: seafood.Scientists in Copenhagen are fermenting seaweed on fungi to develop the closest substitute for seafood yet, working with Alchemist, a two-Michelin-starred restaurant, to meet demand from diners for sustainable plant-based alternatives that are as good as – or bett...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 24, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Rachel Hall Tags: Food science Seafood Denmark Restaurants Europe World news Source Type: news
