Center hopes to bank on altered blood donor rule (Dayton Daily News) Sixteen-year-olds with parental consent can donate blood this week for the first time as Community Blood Center responds to a long-term shrinking donor pool in a holiday week of typically increased need. [News Source]

Center hopes to bank on altered blood donor rule (Middletown Journal) Sixteen-year-olds with parental consent can donate blood this week for the first time as Middletown Community Blood Center responds to a long-term shrinking donor pool in a holiday week of typically increased need. [News Source]

S. KOREA REVOKES TRADE PERMIT ON US BEEF PROCESSING PLANT (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) Regulations / Law The government said Tuesday that it has revoked the trade permit of a U.S. meat processing plant for shipping banned beef ribs to South Korea. [News Source]

S. Korea Revokes Trade Permit On Us Beef Processing Plant (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) The government said Tuesday that it has revoked the trade permit of a U.S. meat processing plant for shipping banned beef ribs to South Korea. [News Source]

S.Korea bans US beef plant after bones found again (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News) SEOUL, Sept 4 - South Korea will permanently block imports from a U.S. beef plant after finding bones in a second shipment in violation of an export agreement with Washington, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday. [News Source]

S.Korea bans US beef plant after bones found again (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) SEOUL, Sept 4 (Reuters) - South Korea will permanently block imports from a U.S. beef plant after finding bones in a second shipment in violation of an export agreement with Washington, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday. [News Source]

The Human-Animal Link (Foreign Relations) Recent outbreaks of avian flu, SARS, the Ebola virus, and mad cow disease wreaked havoc on global trade and transport. They also all originated in animals. Humanity today is acutely vulnerable to diseases that start off in other species, yet our health care remains dangerously blinkered. [News Source]