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This mishmash will let him decide where to send fieldworkers to test for infected birds, plotting the risk of the disease spreading and the chance of setting up a secure quarantine.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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This mishmash will let him decide where to send field-workers to test for infected birds, plotting the risk of the disease spreading and the chance of setting up a secure quarantine.
FORBES: Map Mania
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Both infected and vaccinated animals appear to test positive for TB so scientists are now looking at the the DIVA test (Differentiate Infected from Vaccinated Animals) as a way of telling the difference.
BBC: Cattle TB vaccine 'is years away', MP is told
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Second, as there is still no test to tell whether animals are infected, experiments to find out whether or not beef is safe take ages.
ECONOMIST: Mad cows
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Anyone refusing a test is not allowed to carry out high risk procedures and all staff are obliged to have a test if they believe they may have become infected.
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Cattle can only move onto a TB restricted farm prior to the completion of a veterinary risk assessment and completion of a TB test, carried out 60 days after an infected animal has left the farm.
BBC: Bovine TB controls 'strangling farming' says NFU Cymru
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But the benefit of the new HPV test is that it tells you right away if you're infected with a virus that could cause the cancer.
NPR: Detecting High-Risk HPV in Older Women
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The reason for the ban is the skin test currently used to identify cattle with TB cannot tell the difference between infected animals and those vaccinated with BCG.
BBC: Cattle TB vaccine 'is years away', MP is told
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In 24, 000 couples, the HIV-infected partner had received treatment at the start of the study period - to test out the preventative benefits - while 14, 800 had not.
BBC: Partner treatment 'cuts HIV transmission'
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However, in one test when the throttle was applied, it took 13 minutes for a second machine to be infected, and half an hour for a third.
ECONOMIST: A new way of thwarting viral epidemics on computers
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At NNMC, an added step has been taken by making sure infected and contaminated patients are kept in clusters of rooms separate from those who don't test positive for Acinetobacter.
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