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			<title><![CDATA[Study links disease, poverty and biodiversity]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-12-26 14:26:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Poverty and disease often come together. That much is well understood. 

But how much does poverty foster disease? Or, how much can disease perpetuate poverty? And what&rsquo;s the role of nature, given that so many infectious diseases are spread by...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rockefeller Foundation marks 100 years of achievement and controversy as global do-gooder]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/sns-ap-us-rockefeller-foundation-20130512,0,6768723.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-12 13:57:04</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; For the richest American family of their era, the goal was fittingly ambitious: "To promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world."

With that mission, underwritten by the vast wealth of John D. Rockefeller Sr., the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[With advice from a veterinarian, you can win the war on fleas!]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-08 02:30:06</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Brace yourselves. With all the unseasonably cool weather and record rain across much of the country this spring, veterinary parasitologist Dr. Michael Dryden says fleas may put their bites on unprotected pets in record numbers. In fact, even before this...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Connecticut Needs to Deal With Its Feral Cat Problem]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-12-27 11:20:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Nobody knows how many are out there or how much damage they do. 

They are stealthy, nocturnal predators; often diseased; sometimes despised; living and breeding in dumps and abandoned buildings, by apartment dumpsters and barns; avoiding humans, even...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vets are best weapon in war on pet diseases]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-08-01 21:55:08</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA["Just wait," warns Dr. Ernie Ward of Calabash, N.C. "Those ticks are just waiting for a big rain, wherever you live, to emerge. Because of the mild winter, and then hot and dry spring, ticks have been out in waves."

The tick season began as early as...]]></description>
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