The Animal Healt Directorate (AHD) has declared that Nepal is free of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu.

Health authorities in east China's Anhui Province on Thursday reported three more human cases of H7N9 bird flu.

A new human H7N9 infection case, who used to buy pigeons, has been reported in East China's Jiangsu Province, provincial health authorities said Friday.

There was slump in livestock farming in the country as compared to last year.

China's first human infection of the bird flu H5N6 virus is an isolated case and the risk for further outbreaks remains low, the top health authority said.

A man has died from the H5N6 strain of bird flu in China, a provincial government agency said, in the first known human case of the virus subtype.

The highly pathogenic H5 virus was detected through genetic testing of chickens at a farm in Kumamoto prefecture in the south, the ministry said on its Website.

The Directorate of Animal Health has urged owners of poultry farms to subject their birds to bird flu tests. The appeal came after bird flu surfaced in two poultry farms in Itahari.

Two more people were confirmed to be infected with H7N9 bird flu in two provinces, health authorities said Monday.

Four Chinese regions reported a total of 10 human cases of H7N9 bird flu on Wednesday.