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Several reasons are given for culling in zoos, including a lack of space, the genes of the culled animals are over-represented in the zoo population, the (young) animal might be attacked or killed, or the culled animals have contracted a disease. Because animals in zoos are killed for many reasons, such as old age or disease, just as pet ...
Haemophilia (British English), or hemophilia (American English) [6] (from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma) 'blood' and φιλία (philía) 'love of'), [7] is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding.
Its incidence is approximately 1.5 cases/million/year. [2] The distribution is bimodal with a first period occurrence between 20 and 30 years old, which mainly corresponds to women who develop this disorder in the postpartum, and a second peak between 68 and 80 years old, corresponding to the majority of patients, with no sex difference.
Haemophilus influenzae (formerly called Pfeiffer's bacillus or Bacillus influenzae) is a Gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillary, facultatively anaerobic, capnophilic pathogenic bacterium of the family Pasteurellaceae.
Behr did not have a fever but felt hot to the touch. The vet placed Behr on prednisone 20 mg, 1.5 tabs twice a day for 7 days, then it will be one twice a day, then one a day, for 21 days total ...
The seven footprints, found amidst a clutter of hundreds of prehistoric animal prints, are estimated to be 115,000 years old. Many fossil and artifact windfalls have come from situations like this ...
It was one of the first animals cloned for commercial purposes. [17] [18] In 2000, Texas A&M University cloned a Black Angus bull named 86 Squared, after cells from his donor, Bull 86, had been frozen for 15 years. Both bulls exhibit a natural resistance to brucellosis, tuberculosis, and other diseases which can be transferred in meat. [19] [20]
Mina’s boyfriend, Andrew Sanchez, 18, spoke to investigators and said he was responsible for the 9 mm gun being found by the 2 ½-year-old toddler. Police said Mina had another child, an 8-month ...