Hearing the word Salmonella likely makes you think of raw chicken, not fruits and vegetables. However, this past summer Canada saw 515 confirmed cases of Salmonella linked to red onions, a number that a University of Guelph food microbiologist is now working to prevent.
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Most people’s only exposure to lemurs is through the movie Madagascar, which doesn’t give an accurate representation of the endangerment they are facing and the way that their environments and interactions with humans contribute to this problem.
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Songbird populations in southwestern Ontario have decreased by 70 per cent in the last five decades, as grassland ecosystems are lost to urban sprawl and other factors.
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The One Health concept is often best understood through examples…like that of Prof. Cate Dewey, Professor in Population Medicine and the Director of the One Health Institute, who pursued answers to a difficult, multi-faceted health problem in rural Kenya.
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Personal computer users often run into problems finding enough secure storage space for videos, music and other bits of electronic information…so imagine the challenges facing computer scientists like Prof. Deborah Stacey trying to gather and store millions of data points to address global animal disease.
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