Mas in the Sea (Trinidad Express) Sandbank jam: Carnival bandleader Brian MacFarlane, in Midnight Robber garb, leads masqueraders in traditional mas costumes and members of the Laventille Rhythm Section at the historic launch of his Carnival 2010 presentation, Resurrection, The Mas, on a sandbank in the sea between Pigeon Point and No Man's Land in Tobago yesterday. [News Source]

Flu factors into stocks (Asbury Park Press) 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]

Half Way Packing Co. is back in business (Bolivar Herald-Free Press) Half Way Packing Co. is back in business, and Ted Ballenger is back as manager. Other than that, things have changed. [News Source]

Michael Brooks: The road to the Nobel prize is paved with jeering colleagues (Independent) After decades of effort, scientists have managed to create a vaccine that reduces the risk of HIV infection. It is only a partial success, reducing infection by about a third. But it is a breakthrough that looked as if it might never come. Especially since a group of leading HIV researchers made a concerted effort to stop this particular trial from going ahead. [News Source]

Half Way Packing Co. is back in business (Bolivar Herald-Free Press) Half Way Packing Co. is back in business, and Ted Ballenger is back as manager. Other than that, things have changed. [News Source]

New high-tech lab in B.C. to investigate diseases (CTV British Columbia) B-C has officially opened a new high tech laboratory designed to investigate animal-borne diseases like the H-I-N-1 flu and avian flu. [News Source]

Lawsuit contains new allegations against Chino meatpacking plant (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin) A federal lawsuit filed against the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. alleges animal abuse and fraud at the Chino meatpacking facility was more widespread than previously disclosed. [News Source]

Email this to a friend Print this story (Nodaway News Leader) The following information is being provided by the Nodaway County Health Center due to recent public concern about a local community member who reportedly died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, CJD. Additional tests are being conducted to try to confirm the cause of death. [News Source]

Suit: Meatpacker used ‘downer’ cows for 4 years (Journal & Courier) LOS ANGELES - A Southern California meatpacking plant that supplied beef to the nation's school lunch program slaughtered stumbling, potentially contaminated cows for four years before undercover video of animal abuse prompted a massive beef recall, feder [News Source]

Feds: Calif. meatpacker tied to largest US beef recall slaughtered `downer’ cows for 4 years (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) The USDA Knows this and Looks the Other Way! This is not new news! It is a disgusting practice that goes on all across the US. Ask any honest farmer that ships sick/lame animals to … read more the slaughterhouse and the USDA never culls the herd. I wonder what the USDA does to deserve their pay? [News Source]