On March 3, 1995, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare received a report from the North Central District Health Department (NCDHD) of trichinellosis in a man residing in Idaho County, Idaho (1994 population: 14,938). This report summarizes the epidemiologic and laboratory investigations of this index case and the related outbreak by NCDHD, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and CDC.

CATHERINE E. LOVELOCK, SARA F. WRIGHT*, DEBORAH A. CLARK† and ROGER W. RUESS‡ Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, PO Box 28, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA, * USDA-ARS, Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA, † Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St Louis, MO 63121–4499, USA, and ‡ Institute of Arctic Biology, Univer...

A sensitivity analysis was conducted to determine the relative effects of measurement errors in climate data input parameters on the accuracy of calculated reference crop evapotranspiration (ET) using the ASCE-EWRI Standardized Reference ET Equation. Data for the period of 1995 to 2008 from an automated weather station located at the USDA-ARS Conservation and Production Research Laboratory at B...

Copyright 2004 by Christiane Schroeter and Ken Foster. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. This research was partially supported by the USDA CSREES National Research Initiative Project entitled Estimating Changing Market Conduct in the U.S. Pork Slaughter ...

J.D. Hansen*, J.A. Johnson and D.A. Winter USDA-ARS Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, 5230 Konnowac Pass Road, Wapato, WA 98951, USA; USDA-ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, 9611 S. Riverbend Ave., Parlier, CA 93648, USA; Director of Regulatory Affairs, Quality and Clinical Education, University of California at San Diego Medical Center, 200 West Arbor Drive, San Diego,...

a Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, PO Box 12254, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA b Forest Economics and Policy Work Unit, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, PO Box 12254, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA c Goods, Services, and Values Program, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 620...

We highlighted gaps in nutritional data for wild game meat and wild caught fish that have a regulated harvesting season in New York State, and examined the possible role that wild game and fish play in current trends towards consumption of local, healthy meat sources. This project is part of larger study that examines family food decision-making, and explores possibilities for leveraging the lo...

a Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 59717, United States b Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-2700, United States c USDA Forest Service National Avalanche Center, Bozeman, MT, United States d Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States e Cold Reg...