More than 12,000 eggs, 42.5 kg of dressed chicken, three live birds and 61 feather brooms were seized and destroyed by Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA) since the ban on the import of poultry and related products from India was imposed on January 16 this year. All the seizures were done at the Phuentsholing border gate, which is a main entry point for trade with India. BAFRA officials also imposed fines totalling Nu 30,000.

Tripura Animal Resource Development Department (ARDD) has sent the first consignment of blood and dead bird samples to Belgachhia testing laboratory in Kolkata today following sudden death of about 3,

Vietnam has started clinical trials for developing a human vaccine for the H5N1 virus, researchers said in the country that has recorded 52 deaths from bird flu. Eleven volunteers, all researchers, received their second dosage of the trial vaccine on Thursday inside spotlessly-clean medical rooms of a company run by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi. Dr Nguyen Tuyet Nga, the epidemiologist and virologist heading the trial, said experts were using the highly-pathogenic strain of H5N1 taken from humans in Vietnam and known as VN1194.

Bird Flu's Spread Around The Globe UK: April 3, 2008 LONDON - The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Wednesday that two Indonesians, an 11 year-old female and a 15-year-old male, have died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu. The outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu began in Asia in 2003. Following are some facts about the virus and its spread: >br> * Since the virus re-emerged in Asia, outbreaks have been confirmed in about 60 countries and territories, according to data from the World Organisation for Animal Health.

Two more persons have died of bird flu in Indonesia, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 107, said the Health Ministry on Monday.

bird Flu resurfaces: Pakistan confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu at a farm outside the southern city of Karachi on February 24. This is the fourth outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Karachi in

With the latest outbreak of bird flu in Jalpaiguri, a district of bordering Bangladesh, the Central government on Friday reviewed the situation at a high-level meeting here on Friday.

Ducks, rice and human beings, and not chickens are the "most significant factors' behind persistent outbreaks of bird flu, a new study has claimed.

The death of 800 chickens over the past five days in a State poultry farm in West Bengal's Malda district has led to fears of a fresh outbreak of bird flu in the region.