Restriction on poultry exports follows rules agreed on with each importing country, based on international health certificate requirements, the Agriculture and Livestock ministry added. Depending on the type of disease, some deals apply to the whole country while others involve limits on where products can come from — for example, a specific state, city or just the area of the outbreak.
“I wish I could say I had this healthy, wonderful business I could hand off to my daughter,” he said. “But I worry whether it’s even going to be worthwhile for her to take it over if we can’t make a profit on it or even pay our own wages.”Associated Press data journalist Kasturi Pananjady in Philadelphia contributed to this report. Shastri reported from Herscher, Illinois.
The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Some people who develop a weird and terrifying allergy to red meat aftercan still eat pork from a surprising source:
created for organ transplant research.Don’t look for it in grocery stores. The company that bred these special pigs shares its small supply, for free, with allergy patients.
“We get hundreds and hundreds of orders,” said David Ayares, who heads Revivicor Inc., as he opened a freezer jammed with packages of ground pork patties, ham, ribs and pork chops.
The allergy is called alpha-gal syndrome, named for a sugar that’s present in the tissues of nearly all mammals - except for people and some of our primate cousins. It can cause a serious reaction hours after eating beef, pork or any other red meat, or certain mammalian products such as milk or gelatin.Farm worker Fernando Pedro Cruz Vencinos tends to an apple orchard in a Mennonite community, the epicenter of a measles outbreak, in Cuauhtemoc, Mexico, Mexico, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Megan Janetsky)
Gloria Elizabeth Vega, an Indigenous Raramuri woman and single mother, fell sick in March. Because she’s vaccinated, measles didn’t occur to her until she broke out in hives. Her supervisor at the cheese factory — who also caught measles — told her she had to take 10 days of leave and docked her pay 40% for the week, Vega said.It’s rare for vaccinated people to get measles, but officials say that may account for up to 10% of cases here, though they’re milder.
Vega tucked herself away in the back of her two-room home, hoping her daughter and mother — also vaccinated — wouldn’t get sick. She wishes people would think of others when considering vaccination.“They say, ‘Well, I have enough to be fine,’” she said. “But they don’t think about that other person next to them, or wonder if that person has enough to live off of.”