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WINNIPEG The Winnipeg Humane Society is calling on the federal government to put an end the export of live horses overseas to be slaughtered for meat – saying the practice is inhumane. The humane society s outcry is sparked by a video recorded at the James Armstrong Richardson International Airport in the early hours of Feb. 8. The video shows a number of crates containing horses on the tarmac waiting to be loaded on a plane during a cold snap. The video shows a plane taxiing near the crates – which Brittany Semeniuk, the animal welfare consultant for the WHS, said could scare the horses, which have a higher sensitivity to noise than humans.
Covid 19 update: 11 December 2020
11 Dec 2020
A round-up of this week s coronavirus-related news and countermeasures from the photonics industry.
For Dr Mary-Anne Hartley, a medical doctor and researcher in EPFLâs Intelligent Global Health group (iGH), this past year has been relentless: âItâs not a relaxing time to study infectious diseases,â she said.
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Hartleyâs research team has been working with nearby Swiss university hospitals on two major projects. Using artificial intelligence, they have developed algorithms that, with data from ultrasound images and auscultation (chest/lung) sounds, can accurately diagnose the novel coronavirus in patients and predict how ill they are likely to become.