Pandemic flu possibilities discussed 

A panel of public safety officials and an expert on bird flu earlier this week told Pueblo residents what they know about a potential flu pandemic in the United States. While the audience of an estimated 100 people had a lot of questions, the officials had few specific answers. There is no pandemic flu virus yet, they said. The leading candidate to cause a pandemic, a bird flu virus sweeping Continued…

The source of a cancer that affects dogs around the world has been traced by scientists and vets at UCL (University College London) to a single wolf or dog, which probably lived in China or Siberia more than 250 years ago. In canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT), the cells of the tumour itself are transmitted between dogs during sex. No equivalent form of contagious cancer exists in Continued…

A dog died after its owner left it locked inside a car while temperatures soared at a Northumberland beauty spot. Continued…