The scientist who made a deadly bird flu virus transmissible in mammals, touching off public fears of a pandemic, said Wednesday that the virus he created was neither as contagious nor as dangerous

Thought bird flu was gone?

European farmers are likely to fall behind in the competitive world grain market as EU consumer hostility to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) drives away research and prevents cultivation of h

WASHINGTON: The full details of recent experiments that made a deadly flu virus more contagious will be published, probably within a few months, despite recommendations by the United States that so

The World Health Organization has recommended that two reports on avian flu studies by the Japanese and European researchers be fully published, following a US call on two leading scientific journa

At a time when an outbreak of bird flu have been confirmed in Jhapa, Ilam and Sunsari districts, Dhading, too, saw deaths of thousands of chickens in the past two weeks, raising a fear avian influe

A week after bird flu was detected in Sunsari, Panchthar and Ilam, authorities on Sunday confirmed the outbreak of the influenza in three different areas of Jhapa district.

Authorities on Wednesday said bird flu virus was not detected in the dead chickens in Satherjhora-8, around 15 km south-west of the two bird flu outbreak sites in Sunsari.

Geneva: The EU-India FTA could be disastrous for the farm sector in India, if the demands of the EU negotiators would be accepted, according to a joint study by NGOs Misereror, Glopolis, the Heinri

BHUBANESWAR: After the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) and OUAT, the culling operations were conducted in the wards under the impact zone demarcated for the bird flu prevention and