Malaysia pigs killed to fight virus KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Hog farmers in Malaysia grew impatient Monday with a government slaughter of thousands of pigs to halt the spread of a deadly virus, and started clubbing to death or burying alive their own animals, witnesses said. Experts from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were headed to Malaysia to set up an office and laboratory to investigate the virus, which is blamed for more than 50 deaths. Soldiers continued to shoot thousands of pigs for the third day in an effort to exterminate animals suspected of carrying Japanese encephalitis. The virus, which attacks the brain and causes high fever, vomiting and coma, is transmitted from pigs to humans by the Culex mosquito. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558898444-9ce> Dolphin strandings end in Mass. WELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) - A flurry of dolphin strandings that took the lives of 44 of the sea mammals has ended as mysteriously as it began. Experts from the New England Aquarium and volunteers from the Cape Cod Stranding Network kept watch, but said there were no new strandings Sunday. "There's no more reports of anything. They're just sort of keeping a watch out," said aquarium spokeswoman Susan Knapp. Beginning late Thursday to sundown Saturday, a total of 47 white-sided dolphins were stranded, Knapp said. Of those, 20 died, 24 were euthanized and three were tagged and released back into the ocean. Such strandings are not uncommon on Cape Cod, but their causes remain a mystery. Once beached, the deep-water animals do not usually survive. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558894098-a5d>
