No ordinary house call (Winston-Salem Journal)
Getting the Flu Vaccine If you get the flu vaccine, or shot, it will protect you from getting a bad case of the flu. You either won't get the flu at all or, if you do get it, you will have only mild symptoms and you should get better pretty quickly. Like other shots, a flu shot is given using a needle. There's also a nasal mist flu vaccine, which is a spray that's squirted up your nose.
No ordinary house call (Winston-Salem Journal)
SPARTA - Stephanie Dowell has been kicked by horses, even stomped to the point that her toenail later fell off. But she has also held a calf while it was dying from tetanus in a barn stall. And she has kneeled for hours in the cold helping a cow in labor, then deciding to do a C-section. "It's hard work," said Dowell, 27. "But it's satisfying when I can pull out a live calf and save the cow." ...
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In Tomorrow's Paper (EdmontonSun.com)
A boom in rodeo interest has prompted NAIT's Fairview campus to develop a course that will help cowboys and their families.
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First-year RCTC equestrian team competes in Madison, Crookston (Post-Bulletin)
ulletin, Rochester MN The RCTC equestrian team has started it first full year of competition. With two Hunter Seat and two Western shows under members' belts, they have proved they will be a team to reckon with.
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Creating a destination (Seattle Times)
Seattle has coffee. Redmond has Microsoft. What do Southeast King County cities have? They're paying big bucks to find out. They are spending thousands...
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SPORTS BRIEFS (Lexington Herald-Leader)
COLLEGE BASKETBALL ZELLER SAYS YES TO NORTH CAROLINA Tyler Zeller , a 7-foot senior at Washington (Ind.) High School, spurned offers from three Indiana colleges and said yesterday he would play basketball at North Carolina. He chose the Tar Heels over Indiana, Purdue and Notre Dame, where his 6-foot-10 brother, Luke , the 2005 Indiana high school Mr. Basketball, is a junior. "It took a ...
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State wants to regulate equine dentists (News 8 Austin)
The Texas State Veterinary Medical Board is cracking down on unlicensed horse dentists and wants to regulate the industry.
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State wants to regulate equine dentists (News 8 Austin)
Most horse owners rely on unlicensed horse dentists to care for their animals' teeth. They make house calls for the animals, so it's less expensive than to transport horses to a veterinary clinic for large animals.
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Government quizzed on losses (Herald Sun)
OPPOSITION Leader Ted Baillieu has raised further questions about when Heath Minister Daniel Andrews was informed of losses made in the US sub-prime home loans market by the Western Health hospital group.
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Lyons teen wins college equitation competitio ns (Courier Gazette)
I've been riding forever,' said Kristen Williams of Lyons, a sophomore Equine Business Management major at Cazenovia College. She grew up around horses at Cobblestone Farm in Lyons, and has competed at the All-American Quarter Horse Congress in Columbus, Ohio, since she was 11 years old.
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MAKING THE JUMP Area riders find competition as members of the Interscholastic Equestrian Association (Observer-Reporter)
By Kathie O. Warco
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No ordinary house call (Winston-Salem Journal)
Later flu pandemics were not so devastating. They included the 1957 Asian Flu (type A, H2N2 strain) and the 1968 Hong Kong Flu (type A, H3N2 strain), but even these smaller outbreaks killed millions of people. In later pandemics antibiotics were available to control secondary infections and this may have helped reduce mortality compared to the Spanish Flu of 1918.
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