The new bird flu that’s infected two people in China, killing one, was spawned by the same pathogen that produced two other deadly flu strains, a study found.
A cull of 20,000 chickens was under way in Hong Kong today after the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus was found in poultry imported from mainland China, days before Lunar New Year.
Six more people in China have been confirmed as infected with the new H7N9 strain of bird flu and one of them has died, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.
The Ministry of Agriculture Development has so far provided a compensation of 211 million 679 thousand rupees to the poultry farmers and businesses concerned for the loss of chicks, eggs, bird feed
A 20-year-old woman who was hospitalised in Taiwan in May 2013 with shortness of breath has been found to be infected with a novel H6N1 avian influenza virus subtype.
Chinese researchers announced Saturday they had successfully developed the vaccine for the H7N9 bird flu virus, after the flu strain had left more than 130 people infected, with 45 fatalities repor
Cites “high risk” of occurrence of avian influenza after monsoon as in the past
The Centre has alerted States on post-monsoon outbreak of highly contagious avian influenza or Bird Flu, which has the potential to be transmitted from birds and poultry to human beings (zoonotic risk).
The Ministry of Agriculture has formed a taskforce to review compensation that the government has provided to poultry farmers for bird-flu infected chickens culled to control spread of the deadly v
