Babesiosis attacks the blood cells of dogs causing lethargy, weakness, pale gums, red/brown urine and fever, among other symptoms. Four dogs have contracted canine babesiosis in Harlow, Essex, in recent months despite not travelling abroad, with three of the animals dying.
Uranium deposits are found all over the world. The largest deposits of uranium are found in Australia, Kazakhstan and Canada. High-grade deposits are only found in Canada.
Both neptunium and plutonium can be detected in uranium minerals, though the amounts are small. Uranium minerals regularly contain 1.8 microgrammes of neptunium and up to 0.15 microgrammes of plutonium per ton uranium. In addition there is also primeval plutonium on Earth. The isotope 244 has a half-life of 82.6 million years, and this is enough that a minute amount has survived since the elements making up the Earth were created in the last supernova event before the birth of the solar system.