Bird movements tracked to determine relation between locations and H5N1 outbreaks
STUDYING THE DISEASE FACTOR: S.Balachandran, Assistant Director, BNHS, releasing a bar-headed goose that was fitted with a transmitter at Koonthankulam.
Over 2000 chickens were culled in a poultry farm here Wednesday night following detection of bird flu.
Sources at the Upazila Veterinary Hospital said some chickens died at the poultry farm of Shahjahan Chowdhury in Rajashan Ghasmahal area in the last few days.
Ahmedabad : If you are a horse owner, stay put! That is the status for all horse owners across Gujarat, as the state is in the grip of equine flu for the first time.
This rather ominous news, was given on Saturday by the National Research Center on Equines (NRCE), Hisar after analysis of serum samples of four horses, that died of flu in Ahmedabad police stables earlier this month.
April 9: The district medical and health authorities have alerted people in the city to take precautionary measures against anthrax.
This warning was given in the wake of three deaths suspected to be caused by cutaneous anthrax in Visakhapatnam and confirmed incidence of the disease in Prakasam, Srikakulam, Chittoor, Kurnool and Mahbubnagar districts.
Ahmedabad: An anxious animal husbandry department has been on its toes ever since suspected equine flu struck city police stables and claimed four horses.
Equally concerned is the forest department as Gujarat's pride, the endangered Wild Ass in Rann of Kutch, is very vulnerable to the virus.
Ahmedabad: An anxious animal husbandry department has been on its toes ever since suspected equine flu struck city police stables and claimed four horses.
A total of 215 people have died due to officially confirmed cases of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) infection in different countries since 2003. Of these, six deaths have been reported in the first three months of this year, with four deaths in China and two in Vietnam.
Mumbai The first course of chemotherapy for the 12-year-old white tigress, Renuka, at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) was completed on Tuesday, forest officials said. A week back Renuka was diagnosed with a type of skin cancer, malignant melanoma.
