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Xinjiang, My home: A caring nurse's daily life

STORY: Xinjiang, My home: A caring nurse's daily life DATELINE: Aug. 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:00 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Feng Xueping working 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): FENG XUEPING, Nurse STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE (Chinese): FENG XUEPING, Nurse "I am Feng Xueping, 23 years old. I'm working at Wusu Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine as a nurse at the Geriatric Encephalopathy Department. Elderly people are like children. When they get sick, they always feel stressed. So at our department, we need to console them and help them receive treatment without worries. Do you feel better, auntie? (Yes, I do feel better. Thank you for taking care of me these days.) It's no big deal. I am doing my job. Please take medicines on time at home. Take care of yourself. (Okay. Thank you!) I like watching Douyin in my spare time. And I often post things about my work and life on it. Surprisingly, these brought me some fans. And they often encourage me to keep updating." Xinhua News Agen

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9th cow in Japan with BSE heads for incinerator

TOKYO, Japan - Parts of a slaughtered 21-month-old bullock in Hiroshima Prefecture, which was confirmed as having bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) on Nov. 4, are carried away for incineration at a slaughterhouse in Fukuyama in the prefecture on Nov. 5. It was Japan's ninth case of mad cow disease.

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7th cow with BSE found in Hokkaido

TOKYO, Japan - Two Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry officials speak at a news conference Jan. 23 on Japan's seventh case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) involving a cow in Hokkaido. The announcement came just four days after the finding of the 6th BSE infection case, involving a cow in Wakayama Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo wholesale market launches meat safety campaign

TOKYO, Japan - People crowd a ''meat fair'' which Tokyo's central wholesale market launched in Minato Ward on Oct. 19 to promote its campaign to persuade consumers about the safety of beef and pork. Japan's food industry was hammered by the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), mad cow disease, in the country in September 2001.

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(1)Panel adopts final report on mad cow handling

TOKYO, Japan - A special panel investigating the government's handling of mad cow disease is in session April 2 to adopt a final report on the first outbreak of mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), in Japan in 2001. The report blasted the farm ministry for its failure to ban meat and bone meal (MBM) feed in the mid-1990s.

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Japanese researchers trigger onset of mad cow disease in cows

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo released by the Hokkaido Animal Research Center on Jan. 18 shows a cow which researchers have had infected with mad cow disease in what they call the first such experiment in Japan. The center said the researchers triggered the onset of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in three cows in an experiment in which the cows were injected with abnormal prions extracted from BSE-infected cows. (Kyodo)

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Japanese beef-tasting event at embassy in Moscow

An event to taste Japanese beef is under way at the Embassy of Japan in Moscow on March 26, 2015. Russia resumed imports of beef from Japan this month, lifting the import ban imposed after the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) cases in Japan. Japan has been recognized by the World Organisation for Animal Health as a country having a negligible risk, the lowest risk level under the OIE code, for BSE since May 2013. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(1)Panel adopts final report on mad cow handling

TOKYO, Japan - A special panel investigating the government's handling of mad cow disease is in session April 2 to adopt a final report on the first outbreak of mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), in Japan in 2001. The report blasted the farm ministry for its failure to ban meat and bone meal (MBM) feed in the mid-1990s.

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9th cow in Japan with BSE heads for incinerator

TOKYO, Japan - Parts of a slaughtered 21-month-old bullock in Hiroshima Prefecture, which was confirmed as having bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) on Nov. 4, are carried away for incineration at a slaughterhouse in Fukuyama in the prefecture on Nov. 5. It was Japan's ninth case of mad cow disease. (Kyodo)

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7th cow with BSE found in Hokkaido

TOKYO, Japan - Two Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry officials speak at a news conference Jan. 23 on Japan's seventh case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) involving a cow in Hokkaido. The announcement came just four days after the finding of the 6th BSE infection case, involving a cow in Wakayama Prefecture, central Japan. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo wholesale market launches meat safety campaign

TOKYO, Japan - People crowd a ''meat fair'' which Tokyo's central wholesale market launched in Minato Ward on Oct. 19 to promote its campaign to persuade consumers about the safety of beef and pork. Japan's food industry was hammered by the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), mad cow disease, in the country in September 2001. (Kyodo)