How many mice and rats are used in U.S. labs? Controversial study says more than 100 million
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July 06, 2020 - NYDailyNews
But the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is reducing, not increasing, such monitoring. This reduction of oversight compounds longstanding failures to protect Americans from myriad diseases transmitted by pigs and puts us all at risk.
In the new study, more than one in ten of those who worked around pigs tested positive for the new H1N1 strain. Among young workers — those aged 18 to 35 — that rate jumped to more than one in five. A decade ago, H1N1 killed an estimated 151,700 to 575,400 people worldwide, including more than 12,000 Americans. Unlike COVID-19 and seasonal flu epidemics, the majority of those deaths involved younger people.
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