Six cows killed by sweet potato poisoning
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Food safety officials last night warned consumers eating potatoes and sweet potatoes to check their storage and condition after toxins in vegetables deemed unfit for human consumption were thought responsible for killing six cows
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Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching. Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage.
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18/10/2004 - Brussels commits â¬188 million to food safety issues in the Union linked to animal diseases, signing off the largest slice for eradication of mad cow disease.
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Dutch authorities discovered the  brain-wasting madcow disease BSE in a six-year old animal and  destroyed 26 head of cattle, 25 of them from the same farm, the  Agriculture Ministry said on Monday.
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Some 1.6 million people, mainly small children, die each year from a "kitchen killer" -- disease brought on by inhaling smoke from cooking stoves and indoor fires, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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Anthrax has killed 18 hippos at a Ugandan national park where nearly 200 of the animals died in the worst mass wildlife deaths from disease three months ago, a government official said on Saturday.
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More cattle are to be culled on a County Antrim farm following confirmation of blue tongue disease.
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Â· 31 animals found dead in field  Â· Charities describe scene of unprecedented cruelty
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Result? Fried pachyderm A herd of 40 Indian elephants which quaffed rice wine, "went berserk" as a result and rampaged round a village looking for food, suffered six fatalities after toppling an electricity pole, the West Australian reports.â¦
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Search crews recovered another body Sunday from a sugar refinery devastated by a massive explosion, raising the number of confirmed deaths to six, the state's top elected fire official said.
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Deadly methane gas emanating from a dairy farm's manure pit killed five people, including four members of a Mennonite family, authorities said.
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Â·   Killing wild animals 'can limit spread of cattle TB' Â·  Comments contradict independent report
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New England health officials say three elderly men have died and at least one pregnant woman has miscarried since last June after drinking bacteria-contaminated milk
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is testing the remains of a dairy cow from Alberta suspected of having bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. An initial set of tests failed to rule out the possibility the 4-year-old cow died of BSE.
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Six primary school children have died in northern China from apparent food poisoning, but police are not ruling out criminal intent, state press reported.
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An Ohio company has long been adding the industrial toxin melamine to animal feed ingredients, and those feeds have been eaten by livestock and fish meant for human consumption, officials with the Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday.
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A postal worker worried about an absent colleague came across a horrific scene: six people, likely three generations of the same family, shot to death on their rural property