Meerut: With the outbreak of swine flu in Uttar Pradesh, the health authorities have now started gearing up for bird flu virus.

HYDERABAD: The newly-mutated `Michigan' strain of the H1N1virus, detected in the city two months ago, has left 70 people (largely in and around the city) infected over a span of a week.

With five new cases, the total number of positive cases in the state increased to 355 out of 1089 swab samples, said the Odisha health department statement.

Vadodara: Swine flu claimed three more lives in the city on Monday.

AHMEDABAD: Amid the state government's claim of producing good results in curbing swine flu, the deadly H1N1 virus on Monday took five lives across the state taking the death toll to 373 this year.

Bhopal: Swine flu has claimed 23 lives in Madhya Pradesh since July and infected at least 115 people.

LUCKNOW: Swine flu has claimed one more life in the city .The 45-year-old man, a resident of Thakurganj, died at KGMU trauma centre on Tuesday .

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A serious bacterial cattle disease has been identified at three more farms in New Zealand, raising the number of affected farms to six, the country’s Ministry for Primary Ind

OVER FOURTY cattle have died in Sinazongwe district in the last seven days due to the outbreak of babesiosis disease, district commissioner Protacio Mulenga has confirmed.

An outbreak of cutaneous anthrax in Zambia was linked to contact with the meat from hippos that had died from the bacterial illness.