SURI, 27 DEC: The district animal resource development (ARD) department has begun vaccinating country chickens as part of its anti-bird flu measure. The department has engaged self-help groups (SHG) from various blocks to do the job.
The ARD department started the vaccination programme after temperature started dipping from the middle of December as H5N1 virus usually spreads at low temperature.
KOLKATA: There is need for a concerted and coordinated effort by different countries to promote awareness and prevent outbreak of a pandemic like avian influenza, said officials of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) here on Monday.
A disease like the bird flu is not the problem for India alone, it is the problem of a region and needs to be addressed as such, it said.
Tirupur: As much as 3.06 lakh doses of vaccine have arrived to curtail the foot and mouth disease prevalent in the district, which had already taken away life of 16 cattle in the last 10 days ending Saturday.
Official sources told The Hindu that the vaccines were brought following the confirmation of the cattle's deathwhich took place in Dharapuram revenue division.
A female spotted deer of Herbivore Safari died at the Bannerghatta Biological Park here on Wednesday, while the condition of a leopard is said to be critical.
A post-mortem conducted on the deer revealed that the cause of death is chronic hepatitis and adhesion of visceral organs.
China is to help sub-Saharan Africa tackle schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, a disease that kills some 280,000 Africans each year, by improving treatment of human waste and perhaps even replacing water buffalo with tractors.
Management of excrement is important to control the disease as it is caused by worms, called schistosoma, that are shed in stools and end up in irrigation drains,
Minchu, the tigress at Bannerghatta Biological Park which was in critical condition due to kidney infection following the salmonella bacterial infection died on Tuesday morning.
The tiger which developed infection on September 17 along with other tigers died due to renal failure and jaundice as per the post mortem reports of the Institute of Animal Health and Veterinary Biologicals taking the n
Fifteen tigers, including five cubs, under treatment for bacterial infection at the Bannerghatta Biological Park are responding positively to treatment, a top forest official said on Monday.
"All the infected tigers are showing positive response to the treatment including Minchu who appears to be slightly better but is under intensive care and observation.
