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A new coronavirus that has spread to more than 2,000 people is infectious in its incubation period - before symptoms show - making it harder to contain, Chinese officials say. Health minister Ma Xiaowei told reporters the ability of the virus to spread appeared to be strengthening.
Kenya is suffering under its worst infestation of locusts in 70 years. Hundreds of millions of the insects have swarmed into the country from Somalia and Ethiopia. Those two countries have not have not experienced such a plague in 25 years.
Also in the programme, the United States Department of Transportation is planning on changing its advice to airlines on how to handle the thorny issue of people who wish to travel with emotional support animals.
Plus - the small Scottish island of North Ronaldsay, off Orkney, is home to just 50 people and 2,000 sheep, which have been grazing the shoreline for thousands of years and since the mid 19th century, when a dyke was built along the length of the coastline, cutting them off from the grasslands, they鈥檝e been existing exclusively on seaweed they forage from the beach. It鈥檚 long been known that their peculiar diet has turned their meat into a delicacy but scientists have now become extremely interested in how the sheep digest the seaweed because apparently, they emit far less methane than livestock eating ordinary feed. Studies are now taking place to see if the sheep can teach us how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all stock animals.