PARIS (Reuters) -The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday. U.S. authorities also detected the more common H5N1 strain on the same farm in Merced ...
JERUSALEM, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security said Tuesday it has detected infections of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses, or bird flu, in poultry in northern Israel, the first of its kind in the country this year. The outbreak was discovered i...
Africa reports first bird flu outbreak; 46,000 fowl killed
PHNOM PENH, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has reported the first outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus among poultry, World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said in a statement late Thursday. Citing the information provided by the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, the statement ...
Lab tests have confirmed the first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in war-ravaged Afghanistan, the United Nations and the government said Thursday. A joint U.N.-Afghan statement said samples taken from six birds in the capital, Kabul, and the eastern city of Jalalabad tested...
this culling has effectively limited the spread of bird flu in outbreak situations but naturally has negative effects on the poultry and egg industry. UnlikeEbola, which has a narrow geographic range (endemic in Africa), the bird flu continues to exist in significant areas of the world and can...
This D1.1 strain of H5N1 bird flu is different from the B3.13 genotype which has been fueling this past year's unprecedented outbreak on dairy farms across the U.S. Including the Louisiana case, the CDC tallies 66 reported human cases in the U.S. since last year from any of the H5 ...
HO CHI MINH CITY, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's southern Ben Tre province has seen the first outbreak of A/H5N6 bird flu which has led to the culling of 1,000 chickens. The outbreak was spotted in Mo Cay Nam district, and then tests confirmed that the flock of fowls raised by a...
A bird flu outbreak in the U.S. that led to the deaths of more than 40 million chickens and turkeys and contributed to a spike in egg and meat prices appears to be waning, but experts caution the virus hasn't disappeared and worry another surge could tak
JERUSALEM, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday reported an outbreak of bird flu in a coop housing 29,300 chickens in the village of Hibat Tzion in central Israel. To curb the spread of the disease, all chicken coops within a 10-km radius of the affected...