Pakistan reported more than 1,000 outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) last year, the largest number of FMD epidemics ever recorded in the world, said a speaker at an international conference

The UN food agency on Tuesday warned the world risked a surge in bird flu outbreaks unless countries strengthen their monitoring against dangerous animal diseases despite economic hardship, reports

Disease Claims 10 Cattle Two Months After Elephant’s Death On Bandipur Forest Fringes

Mysore: Anthrax scare has returned to haunt tiger reserves in the state after the death of 10 cattle heads on the fringes of Bandipur forest. Forest officials are perplexed as this comes just two months after anthrax claimed a 10-year-old tusker in Thalavadi range in Sathyamangalam forest bordering BRT tiger reserve in November last year.

Scientists Lift Moratorium A Year After Tests Were Suspended Over Terror Fears

Experiments with a deadly flu virus, suspended last year after a fierce global debate over safety, will start up again in some laboratories, probably within the next few weeks, scientists say. The research touched off a firestorm in 2011 when it became known that two groups, one in the Netherlands and another in the United States, had genetically altered a dangerous bird flu virus to make it more contagious in mammals. Scientists warned that a deadly pandemic could break out if the mutant virus leaked out of the lab accidentally or if terrorists stole it or made it themselves, using articles in scientific journals for the recipe.

West Bengal, Assam, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh to observe strict surveillance

The Centre on Wednesday sounded ‘high alert’ in border States against avian influenza after outbreak of the dreaded poultry disease in Bhutan. Thousands of birds have been culled in Bhutan after the outbreak, which is yet to be controlled. Earlier this month, samples of affected birds were sent to India’s High Security Animal Disease Lab in Bhopal and they tested positive.

Bird Flu Outbreak: More than 396 birds of 46 households were culled in Namkhaling village, Gelephu, following an outbreak of a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5NI in the locality.

Two more female fallow deer died in the zoo on Sunday as zoo officials remained clueless about how to tackle the outbreak of mysterious infection which has so far claimed the lives of 21 animals in

Some 3,500 chickens were slaughtered in four different poultry farms in Pokhara, Kaski, on Wednesday as bird flu (H5N1) virus was detected there.

The zoo death toll rose to six on Thursday when three more female deer died of the mysterious disease that had claimed the lives of three deer on Tuesday, zoo staff told Dawn.

Longer summer, shorter winter observed in many places. The weather pattern in Bhutan has become unpredictable.