McAfee software bug could turn customers' PCs into spam servers (Reuters)

BOSTON (Reuters) ? Anti-virus software maker McAfee warned that a flaw in one of its products could make customers' PCs vulnerable to attacks in which hackers used their computers to distribute spam.

The company, which is a unit of chipmaker Intel Corp, disclosed the flaw in a message to customers on its website Wednesday.

McAfee spokesman Ian Bain said t least one customer had fallen victim to such an attack, which leveraged a flaw in a service offering known as McAfee SaaS for Total Protection.

The web-based service protects customers from viruses hidden in emails and websites. Bain said the flaw was in a piece of software that McAfee customers install on their PCs to enable them to use the service.

While the flaw could enable hackers to send spam from machines of McAfee SaaS for Total Protection customers, it does not grant them access to data on an affected PC, Bain said.

He said that the company's engineers were working to fix the bug and expected to have it fixed on Thursday.

In April 2010, a glitch included in a regular release of McAfee's anti-virus software mistakenly identified part of Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) popular Windows XP operating system as a virus, triggering personal computer outages at many of its customers, including more than 100 large corporations.

(Reporting by Jim Finkle; Editing by Matt Driskill)

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New pipeline study would take minimum 12-18 months (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The Obama administration could save time in evaluating any new Canada-to-Texas crude oil pipeline if it hewed closely to the Keystone XL proposal, but any assessment would take at least 12-18 months, a U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday.

The Obama administration on Wednesday rejected the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas crude oil pipeline project, a decision welcomed by environmental groups but blasted by the domestic energy industry and congressional Republicans.

U.S. President Barack Obama said TransCanada's application for the 1,700-mile (2,740-km) pipeline was denied because the State Department did not have enough time to complete the review process.

The State Department noted that a new application could be submitted, leaving open the possibility that TransCanada could, if it chose, keep the project alive by designing a new route.

A U.S. official told Reuters that a similar route could be evaluated more quickly because of work already done but he said that a new assessment could not be completed in less than 12-18 months.

"When it comes time to prepare the environmental documents, an agency can taken account of the existing environmental documents ... and that obviously has the potential to save some time and resources in doing a subsequent review," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Obama administration said on November 10 it would study a new pipeline route, delaying any final approval beyond the U.S. 2012 election and sparing Obama a politically risky decision for now.

At the time, U.S. officials familiar with the matter said that studying a new route for the pipeline would likely take 12-18 months, putting a final decision after Obama's bid for re-election on November 6.

"We would just be speculating in terms of how long it might take from a new application to completion without knowing what might be different," said the U.S. official, saying any evaluation could not be done in less than 12-18 months.

"One can't just transpose that amount of time that we had estimated for doing the analysis of alternative routes in Nebraska to how long it might (take) to do a review of something from the beginning," he added.

(Reporting By Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Philip Barbara)

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Maria Menounos Strikes A Tim Tebow Pose At The Golden Globes

TV personality Maria Menounos got creative while posing for photos on the Golden Globes red carpet. Despite her slim-fitting dress and high heels, Menounos crouched down on one knee in a prayer position, an ode to religious Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. Menounos’ support of the Broncos might explain her choice in dresses, too. Her [...]

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Earlier than expected, Daley out as chief of staff

President Barack Obama shakes hands with outgoing White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington. Obama announced Jack Lew, the administration's current budget director, will replace Daley. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama shakes hands with outgoing White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington. Obama announced Jack Lew, the administration's current budget director, will replace Daley. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Jack Lew, the administration's current budget director, listens at left, as President Barack Obama speaks about the resignation of White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington. Obama announced that Lew will replace Daley. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama, accompanied by White House Chief of Staff William Daley, announces Daley is leaving and current Budget Director Jack Lew will take over as chief of staff, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama leaves the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, after announcing the resignation of White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, center. Obama announced Jack Lew, left, the administration's current budget director, will replace Daley. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama speaks about the resignation of White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, right, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington. Obama announced Jack Lew, left, the administration's current budget director, will replace Daley. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

(AP) ? In a jolt to the White House, President Barack Obama announced Monday that chief of staff William Daley was quitting and heading home, capping a short and rocky tenure that had been expected to last until Election Day. Obama budget chief Jack Lew, a figure long familiar with Washington's ways, will take over one of the most consuming jobs in America.

Daley's run as Obama's chief manager and gatekeeper lasted only a year. It was filled with consequential moments for the White House, like the killing of al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, but also stumbles with Congress and grumbles that Daley was not the right choice to coordinate an intense operation of ideas, offices and egos.

Obama said he reluctantly accepted the news and at first refused to accept Daley's post-holidays resignation letter last week.

Daley did not waver, expressing to his boss a desire to get back to his family in Chicago, where Daleys have dominated city politics for decades. But he offered no explanation on Monday about what accelerated his decision; he had committed to Obama that he would stay on through the election.

It apparently became clear that the fit was no longer working for either side. Senior adviser Pete Rouse had already taken on more of the day-to-day management.

Stepping in is the mild-mannered Lew, who began his career on Capitol Hill, where he spent nearly a decade as principal domestic policy adviser to the late House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Lew, 56, has worked for Obama as a deputy secretary of state before becoming budget director, the same position he held in the Clinton administration.

Daley had been brought in for his political savvy, business ties and experience as a commerce secretary. Yet as an outsider, he did not personally know Obama well, meaning he was forced to figure out the president and run his operation simultaneously. He did not seem to mesh as the one, more than anyone, charged with ensuring a smooth operation.

The president delivered the other side of the story, describing Daley as highly influential and effective.

White House officials said that to the degree Daley gets blame for any missteps, he also deserves credit for his work during a remarkably demanding year that ended on a high for Obama, with a political victory over House Republicans in getting a payroll tax cut extended.

"No one in my administration has had to make more important decisions more quickly than Bill. And that's why I think this decision was difficult for me," Obama said in a State Dining Room that was nearly empty except for the assembled media.

The mood was decidedly more low-key than other transitions involving the top staff job at the White House.

Obama now plows ahead in an election year with his third chief of staff ? one of the most crucial positions in government and politics. Daley had replaced the colorful and involved-in-everything Rahm Emanuel, who left the job to run for Chicago mayor, a position he now holds. Rouse also served as interim chief of staff for a stretch.

Those following Washington politics had seen this day coming, especially since Rouse took on more of Daley's traditional role in November. Although Obama praised Daley at length for his help on major decisions in 2011, the West Wing had endured private struggles with coordination and communication, particularly with Congress.

Daley, 63, was not pushed out the door, said a Democratic strategist familiar with the decision The timing was driven by Daley's personal reflection, yet it also only would have gotten more awkward for the White House had he not left before Obama's tone-setting State of the Union, said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the personnel matter.

The State of the Union speech is Jan. 24, followed closely by the release of his White House budget proposal in early February. The chief-of-staff transition is expected by the end of the month, with Lew staying on at the Office of Management and Budget until the budget plan is released. It is unclear who will lead the agency after that.

Lew and Daley stood with the president on Wednesday but did not speak. The White House said neither man was giving interviews.

Lew's private sector experience includes a stint as managing director and chief operating officer of Citigroup's global wealth management division.

Daley, meanwhile, will serve as a co-chair of Obama's Chicago-based re-election efforts, said a campaign official, who requested anonymity ahead of the official announcement.

Unlike Daley, Lew comes with deep connections to Congress, where Obama's relationship with lawmakers is a source of constant debate.

Coming after Emanuel, a former congressman and a leader of his caucus, Daley's relationship with congressional Democrats was hardly smooth.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who after being accustomed to speaking with Emanuel up to a dozen times a day, was in contact with Daley only rarely, according to a former senior Senate Democratic leadership aide who talked on condition of anonymity to speak about private relationships.

Reid sent out an upbeat statement on Lew ("a consummate professional with intimate knowledge of Congress) and Daley (for "handling crises few chiefs of staff have had to face.")

Daley also was blamed by congressional Democrats for an embarrassing incident last fall when Obama was forced to reschedule his plans to deliver a jobs speech to Congress after House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, rejected the date Obama first proposed.

Matters hit a new low when Daley complained in an interview with Politico in October that both congressional Republicans and Democrats were making life difficult for the president. Reid objected strongly to Daley's mention of problems with Democrats, considering his efforts to advance Obama's agenda, the aide said.

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Associated Press writers Erica Werner and Julie Pace contributed to this report.

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UCSF, Sanofi collaborate to find new diabetes cures

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The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has signed an alliance with international pharmaceutical company Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) to share expertise in diabetes research and identify drug targets that could lead to new therapies for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

The $3.1 million collaboration will bring together scientists in three UCSF labs with deep understanding of the biology of beta cells insulin-producing cells that are destroyed in type 1 diabetes and often produce too little insulin in type 2 with Sanofi researchers who are experienced in developing potential drug candidates into actual therapies.

"This is a true partnership between scientists with very different strengths," said Matthias Hebrok, PhD, director of the UCSF Diabetes Center. "UCSF is known for its deep understanding of the underlying biology of diabetes, while Sanofi has great expertise in screening compounds, identifying which molecules have potential, and moving them along to develop a new drug. Such an endeavor is almost impossible to accomplish in a single academic laboratory. Thus, both partners profit from the expertise of the other group."

The alliance is the University's third collaboration with Sanofi, alongside brain trauma and oncology research launched last year, since the two signed a master agreement in January 2011 to work together in translating academic science into potential new therapies. Master agreements lay out the fundamental terms of research collaborations, align with the University's academic mission including broad publication rights, and form part of a core strategy for the UCSF Office of Innovation, Technology and Alliances to expedite that "bench-to-bedside" research.

Partnershp Combines Expertise on Both Sides

This also is the first collaboration of its kind for the UCSF Diabetes Center, extending beyond simpler, funded-research agreements to create a two-way partnership in which scientists on both sides contribute technology and expertise to identify drug targets and test their potential.

"Sanofi is pleased to collaborate with the Diabetes Center at UCSF to combine expertise in employing new technologies for the development of innovative diabetes therapies," said Pierre Chancel, senior vice president in the Diabetes Division at Sanofi. "The potential resulting drug discovery projects will supplement our integrated solutions model for diabetes management and help Sanofi continue to deliver best-in-class solutions to people living with diabetes."

Together, the team will assess and validate potential drug targets from a UCSF library of roughly 100,000 small interference RNAs (siRNA) molecules that play a crucial role in turning on and off genes, including the gene that produces insulin. They also will identify Sanofi compounds that might be effective in regulating those molecules, study the impact those compounds have on UCSF laboratory models of diabetes and assess their therapeutic potential.

In the United States alone, 46 percent of adults had diabetes or pre-diabetes in 2010, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which projects a full third of Americans will have the disease in 2050. It is the leading cause of blindness and kidney failure, a major cause of heart disease and stroke, and the seventh-highest cause of death in the U.S. Diabetes care costs $116 billion each year in the United States alone, according to the CDC, with an additional $58 billion toll in lost productivity and early mortality.

The initial project, intended as a pilot for broader joint research into diabetes, will operate under the oversight of an expert panel from UCSF and Sanofi, and focus on beta cells, drawing on the expertise of three renowned UCSF Diabetes Center researchers and their laboratories:

Michael McManus, PhD, a molecular biologist and expert in microRNA and the way genes are expressed, or turned into genetic products such as insulin and other proteins; Hebrok, an expert on beta-cell biology and development who holds the UCSF Hurlbut-Johnson Distinguished Professorship in Diabetes Research; and Michael German, MD, an expert on beta-cell function and how cells transcribe DNA into RNA to create proteins, who is clinical director of the Diabetes Center and holds the Justine K. Schreyer Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research.

UCSF and its Diabetes Center have a long history of breakthroughs in diabetes and beta-cell research, spanning from the first cloning of the insulin gene to the first clinical studies blocking autoimmune destruction of beta cells. UCSF Diabetes Center researchers and their affiliated members are renowned experts in their respective fields: immunology, b-cell biology, islet and pancreas transplantation, and RNAi/microRNAs.

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University of California - San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has signed an alliance with international pharmaceutical company Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) to share expertise in diabetes research and identify drug targets that could lead to new therapies for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

The $3.1 million collaboration will bring together scientists in three UCSF labs with deep understanding of the biology of beta cells insulin-producing cells that are destroyed in type 1 diabetes and often produce too little insulin in type 2 with Sanofi researchers who are experienced in developing potential drug candidates into actual therapies.

"This is a true partnership between scientists with very different strengths," said Matthias Hebrok, PhD, director of the UCSF Diabetes Center. "UCSF is known for its deep understanding of the underlying biology of diabetes, while Sanofi has great expertise in screening compounds, identifying which molecules have potential, and moving them along to develop a new drug. Such an endeavor is almost impossible to accomplish in a single academic laboratory. Thus, both partners profit from the expertise of the other group."

The alliance is the University's third collaboration with Sanofi, alongside brain trauma and oncology research launched last year, since the two signed a master agreement in January 2011 to work together in translating academic science into potential new therapies. Master agreements lay out the fundamental terms of research collaborations, align with the University's academic mission including broad publication rights, and form part of a core strategy for the UCSF Office of Innovation, Technology and Alliances to expedite that "bench-to-bedside" research.

Partnershp Combines Expertise on Both Sides

This also is the first collaboration of its kind for the UCSF Diabetes Center, extending beyond simpler, funded-research agreements to create a two-way partnership in which scientists on both sides contribute technology and expertise to identify drug targets and test their potential.

"Sanofi is pleased to collaborate with the Diabetes Center at UCSF to combine expertise in employing new technologies for the development of innovative diabetes therapies," said Pierre Chancel, senior vice president in the Diabetes Division at Sanofi. "The potential resulting drug discovery projects will supplement our integrated solutions model for diabetes management and help Sanofi continue to deliver best-in-class solutions to people living with diabetes."

Together, the team will assess and validate potential drug targets from a UCSF library of roughly 100,000 small interference RNAs (siRNA) molecules that play a crucial role in turning on and off genes, including the gene that produces insulin. They also will identify Sanofi compounds that might be effective in regulating those molecules, study the impact those compounds have on UCSF laboratory models of diabetes and assess their therapeutic potential.

In the United States alone, 46 percent of adults had diabetes or pre-diabetes in 2010, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which projects a full third of Americans will have the disease in 2050. It is the leading cause of blindness and kidney failure, a major cause of heart disease and stroke, and the seventh-highest cause of death in the U.S. Diabetes care costs $116 billion each year in the United States alone, according to the CDC, with an additional $58 billion toll in lost productivity and early mortality.

The initial project, intended as a pilot for broader joint research into diabetes, will operate under the oversight of an expert panel from UCSF and Sanofi, and focus on beta cells, drawing on the expertise of three renowned UCSF Diabetes Center researchers and their laboratories:

Michael McManus, PhD, a molecular biologist and expert in microRNA and the way genes are expressed, or turned into genetic products such as insulin and other proteins; Hebrok, an expert on beta-cell biology and development who holds the UCSF Hurlbut-Johnson Distinguished Professorship in Diabetes Research; and Michael German, MD, an expert on beta-cell function and how cells transcribe DNA into RNA to create proteins, who is clinical director of the Diabetes Center and holds the Justine K. Schreyer Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research.

UCSF and its Diabetes Center have a long history of breakthroughs in diabetes and beta-cell research, spanning from the first cloning of the insulin gene to the first clinical studies blocking autoimmune destruction of beta cells. UCSF Diabetes Center researchers and their affiliated members are renowned experts in their respective fields: immunology, b-cell biology, islet and pancreas transplantation, and RNAi/microRNAs.

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Pistons coach wants rookie Brandon Knight to stay pumped

Philadelphia? Most rookies would have to be calmed down in their first NBA start.

But for Pistons rookie Brandon Knight, his coach wanted him to be as hyped as possible.

"You want that type of excitement and passion," Pistons coach Lawrence Frank said. "You don't want to dim the light."

With other rookie point men like Kyrie Irving (Cleveland) and Ricky Rubio (Minnesota) getting a lot of attention, Knight has fallen somewhat off the national radar.

Knight had an opportunity to vault himself back into that conversation with the Pistons playing without Rodney Stuckey (groin) and Ben Gordon (personal matter) against Philadelphia on Friday night. But he pretty much did what he had been doing in an average 23 minutes off the bench, scoring 10 points with four assists Friday. He did bring down nine rebounds.

Knight has been solid since his spectacular home opener (23 points, six assists vs. Cleveland). Frank's trust in Knight is why he doesn't worry about having to take him out for making mistakes out of carelessness.

"If you tell him to stay calm, cool and collected, he may psyche himself down," Frank said.

It's unlikely Stuckey's groin will improve to the point of him playing tonight against the Knicks, which will give Knight another opportunity to show his mettle.

'I'll be all right,' says Daye

Austin Daye might as well be on a milk carton, because he's been invisible to start the season. He hoped starting at shooting guard alongside Knight, with whom he developed a nice drive-and-kick chemistry during the preseason, would jump-start him.

"I just need to make some shots, a shot," Daye said before the game. "Then I'll be all right."

But Daye did little to break from the tentativeness he had been showing in his 10 minutes per game, contributing four points, two rebounds and three assists over 24 minutes. He went scoreless in four of his first five games.

With only guard Will Bynum on the bench, Daye got a chance to sink or swim, not having to worry about the quick hook.

"Sometimes, this helps guys," Frank said. "When you're starting, you feel like the leash isn't as tight."

Damien Wilkins' steady play and tough defense has minimized Daye's role thus far, but Frank said he'll get more than his share of opportunities.

"It comes down to performance, it's not a knock on Austin," Frank said.

Villanueva stays upbeat

Speaking of too early to draw conclusions, Charlie Villanueva comes to mind. Villanueva hasn't played much since returning from his four-game suspension to start the season and didn't play Friday night.

"It's way too early to get frustrated," Villanueva said, smiling. "? I'm slowly getting back into things now. I'll be in the rotation."

Pistons prize picks

Former Sixers center Marreese Speights was traded to Memphis earlier this week, which, of course, spurred a reaction from Pistons fans wondering why the team didn't get involved in trading for a big man who can score.

The Pistons were in talks with the Sixers, but the Sixers wanted draft picks and not actual players in return for Speights, who was traded for two second-round picks.

The Pistons like him but didn't want to give up picks while adding payroll.

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Is Drew McIntyre a poorly ?Chosen One??

Without question, Mr. McMahon has an eye for talent. That much has been obvious since his earliest days at the helm of WWE. So when he hand-picks a Superstar and declares him bound for greatness, the WWE Universe is sure to take notice. In Drew McIntyre?s case, just such a prediction by Mr. McMahon led to lofty expectations and the moniker of ?The Chosen One.? Back in 2009, Mr. McMahon personally signed McIntyre to SmackDown, seeing in the young Superstar traits that both impressed the Chairman and reminded Mr. McMahon of himself.

Recent events, however, have called Mr. McMahon?s predictions into question. Is Drew McIntyre a false prophet? Is he, in fact, proving Mr. McMahon wrong?

The Scottish Superstar has returned to SmackDown in an effort to live up to the Chairman?s prediction that he will one day become a World Champion. However, things haven?t exactly gone according to plan, and as Michael Cole stated on the last SmackDown of 2011, Drew McIntyre has devolved from ?The Chosen One? to ?The Desperate One? in recent weeks.

After bringing McIntyre back into the SmackDown fold, General Manager Theodore Long had some pointed words for him on the Dec. 30 edition of SmackDown. Laying down the law, Long informed McIntyre that if he doesn?t start winning matches, he could end up fired.

1354090290001|02:34Long reassured McIntyre that he?s one of the most talented Superstars in WWE today, but he also made clear that there was something missing. The General Manager then insinuated that ?The Chosen One? may be lacking the passion that he displayed when he first arrived in WWE. At the end of their uneasy exchange, McIntyre told Teddy to watch his match against Ezekiel Jackson for an answer to all of Long?s concerns.

It wasn?t the answer he envisioned, though. ?A pinfall loss to Jackson left McIntyre pleading his case to Teddy, claiming referee bias. The argument did nothing to sway SmackDown?s GM, who drove home his feelings about the Scottish Superstar. ?I can?t stand losers, playa,? Long said. ?Especially losers that make excuses.?

Frustrated, and perhaps more than a little worried for his livelihood, McIntyre walked away and left the General Manager?and the WWE Universe?with unanswered questions.?

Can Drew McIntyre get the job done and live up to the lofty expectations laid upon him by Mr. McMahon? Or will the Scottish Superstar find himself on the chopping block, courtesy of Theodore Long?

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Wildlife Conservation Society documents pneumonia outbreak in endangered markhor

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Outbreak reduced numbers of a wild population of endangered wild goats in Tajikistan by as much as 20 percent

If they didn't have enough to worry about from dodging poachers, snow leopards, and landslides in Central Asia's rugged mountains, a population of endangered markhora majestic wild goat specieshas contracted pneumonia, detected for the first time by the Wildlife Conservation Society and partners in Tajikistan and France.

Markhor are known for their impressive corkscrew horns that can reach nearly five feet in length, and their spectacular climbing ability that enables them to climb cliffsand despite their large size, even treesto feed. The pneumonia outbreak, which occurred in Tajikistan during September and October of 2010, is believed to have killed at least 65 markhorsas much as 20 percent of the population remaining in the country. Fewer than 2,500 markhor exist across their entire range.

The study appears in the December issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Authors include Stphane Ostrowski of the Wildlife Conservation Society; Francois Thiaucourt, Luca Manso-Silvn, and Virginie Dupuy of Centre de Coopration International en Recherche Agronomique pour le Dveloppement of Montpellier, France; Mulojon Amirbekov, Abdurahmon Mahmadshoev, and Orom Ziyoev of Tajikistan's Ministry of Agriculture; Dustmurod Vahobov of the Tajikistan's Academy of Agricultural Sciences; and Stefan Michel of Tajikistan's Nature Protection Team. The work was supported in part by the German federal agency for international cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Internationale Zusammenarbeit).

The authors of the study believe that the markhor may have contracted the disease from domestic goats. Raising goats in habitats used by markhor is a necessity for local communities with few other livelihood options. This cohabitation increases the risk of transmission of infectious agents from domestic stock to wildlife.

The authors believe that a newly recorded pathogen in markhor may be responsible for the pneumonia outbreak. The case emphasizes the need for continuous disease surveillance in domestic animals that have contact with valuable wildlife resources, the authors said.

"So far, no new outbreaks have been reported since 2010," said Dr. Ostrowski, lead author on the study. "Recent investigations in the area of the outbreak have revealed that domestic goats test positive for a Mycoplasma bacteria that may cause pneumonia in both domestic and wild goats. The Nature Protection Team, a Tajik nongovernmental organization, is working with communities to minimize contacts between domestic animals and markhor."

WCS has been leading efforts to save the remarkable markhor across its range. In the mountains of northern Pakistan, WCS now works with more than 20 communities to stop poaching and train community rangers to monitor markhor and enforce local hunting bans. In Afghanistan, WCS recently conducted wildlife surveys along the border of Tajikistan and discovered previously unrecorded populations of markhor in the Badakhshan Province. WCS, with funding from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is also bringing together health officials in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to assess disease threats to markhor and other wildlife in the region.

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Outbreak reduced numbers of a wild population of endangered wild goats in Tajikistan by as much as 20 percent

If they didn't have enough to worry about from dodging poachers, snow leopards, and landslides in Central Asia's rugged mountains, a population of endangered markhora majestic wild goat specieshas contracted pneumonia, detected for the first time by the Wildlife Conservation Society and partners in Tajikistan and France.

Markhor are known for their impressive corkscrew horns that can reach nearly five feet in length, and their spectacular climbing ability that enables them to climb cliffsand despite their large size, even treesto feed. The pneumonia outbreak, which occurred in Tajikistan during September and October of 2010, is believed to have killed at least 65 markhorsas much as 20 percent of the population remaining in the country. Fewer than 2,500 markhor exist across their entire range.

The study appears in the December issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Authors include Stphane Ostrowski of the Wildlife Conservation Society; Francois Thiaucourt, Luca Manso-Silvn, and Virginie Dupuy of Centre de Coopration International en Recherche Agronomique pour le Dveloppement of Montpellier, France; Mulojon Amirbekov, Abdurahmon Mahmadshoev, and Orom Ziyoev of Tajikistan's Ministry of Agriculture; Dustmurod Vahobov of the Tajikistan's Academy of Agricultural Sciences; and Stefan Michel of Tajikistan's Nature Protection Team. The work was supported in part by the German federal agency for international cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Internationale Zusammenarbeit).

The authors of the study believe that the markhor may have contracted the disease from domestic goats. Raising goats in habitats used by markhor is a necessity for local communities with few other livelihood options. This cohabitation increases the risk of transmission of infectious agents from domestic stock to wildlife.

The authors believe that a newly recorded pathogen in markhor may be responsible for the pneumonia outbreak. The case emphasizes the need for continuous disease surveillance in domestic animals that have contact with valuable wildlife resources, the authors said.

"So far, no new outbreaks have been reported since 2010," said Dr. Ostrowski, lead author on the study. "Recent investigations in the area of the outbreak have revealed that domestic goats test positive for a Mycoplasma bacteria that may cause pneumonia in both domestic and wild goats. The Nature Protection Team, a Tajik nongovernmental organization, is working with communities to minimize contacts between domestic animals and markhor."

WCS has been leading efforts to save the remarkable markhor across its range. In the mountains of northern Pakistan, WCS now works with more than 20 communities to stop poaching and train community rangers to monitor markhor and enforce local hunting bans. In Afghanistan, WCS recently conducted wildlife surveys along the border of Tajikistan and discovered previously unrecorded populations of markhor in the Badakhshan Province. WCS, with funding from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is also bringing together health officials in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to assess disease threats to markhor and other wildlife in the region.

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