Tripura Animal Resource Development Department (ARDD) has sent the first consignment of blood and dead bird samples to Belgachhia testing laboratory in Kolkata today following sudden death of about 3,

A free mass vaccination-cum-treatment camp for the livestock of the fringe villages of Orang National Park was held recently.

Almost thousands of birds, including chickens and ducks, have died of an unknown disease in the Bangladesh-bordering villages of Kamalpur division in north Tripura during the past fortnight, BSF offic

Two more persons have died of bird flu in Indonesia, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 107, said the Health Ministry on Monday.

With the latest outbreak of bird flu in Jalpaiguri, a district of bordering Bangladesh, the Central government on Friday reviewed the situation at a high-level meeting here on Friday.

Ducks, rice and human beings, and not chickens are the "most significant factors' behind persistent outbreaks of bird flu, a new study has claimed.

Rinderpest, an animal disease that devastated cattle and other animals-and their human keepers-across Eurasia and Africa for millennia, may join smallpox as the only viral diseases to have been eradicated.

BANGKOK, Thailand: Rabbit fever, a disease that can be lethal if not treated early, has killed a woman in Thailand, marking the country's first reported case, a health official said Wednesday.

The death of 800 chickens over the past five days in a State poultry farm in West Bengal's Malda district has led to fears of a fresh outbreak of bird flu in the region.

A pigeon lover in Dinhata lost 30 birds from his collection of over 200 in the past two days, sending officials of the animal resources development (ARD) department scurrying to his residence at Khari

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