CSU scientists get new home (The Vail Trail) CSU now has a $42 million centralized facility [News Source]

Some profit from the swine flu (KETK 56 Tyler) TYLER-Rather than reaching for rubber gloves and face masks for protection, some investors are trying to expose their portfolios to the swine flu. As health officials brace to see if the swine flu strain worsens, investors are looking for companies that might actually profit from the pandemic. read more [News Source]

U.S. should watch for animal disease, institute says (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The United States needs to lead a global effort to protect people from new outbreaks of deadly infectious diseases that originate in animals, such as swine flu, AIDS and SARS, health experts said Tuesday. [News Source]

Report On Species-Jumping Diseases (redOrbit) Significant weaknesses undermine the global community's abilities to prevent, detect early, and respond efficiently to potentially deadly species-crossing microbes, such as the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus sweeping the globe, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. [News Source]

US should watch for animal disease, institute says (AlertNet) Source: Reuters * Integrated surveillance system needed * USAID, State Department, WHO and FAO should lead By David Morgan WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The United States needs to lead a global effort to ... [News Source]

Investors look for stocks that could gain from swine flu (USA Today) Rather than reaching for rubber gloves and face masks for protection, some investors are trying to expose their portfolios to the swine flu. [News Source]

Transhumance Helps Vulture Conservation (redOrbit) Image Caption: This is a flock of transhumant merino sheep from Extremadura grazing in a mountain pass in the Cantabrian mountains. Credit: Pedro P. Olea / SINC [News Source]

Transhumance Helps Vulture Conservation (Science Daily) Researchers in Spain have shown for the first time the close space-time relationship between the presence of the griffon vulture and transhumant sheep farming in mountain passes. Transhumance -- the seasonal movement of people with their livestock -- has fallen in some parts of Spain by up to 80 percent over the past four years. The scientists say that traditional livestock farming practices are ... [News Source]

CSU scientists get new home (Denver Post) Gone are the days when results from blood tests, animal autopsies and biopsies of horses and cows were shuttled between trailers and cramped hallways on the Colorado State University campus. [News Source]

Sharpshooters begin destroying elk herd (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) In January, a female at the farm near Pine Island was found to have CWD, a fatal brain disease. A USDA agency is killing all 700 elk. [News Source]