India

 Migratory birds expert Taej Mundkur on bird flu

Taej Mundkur, an expert on migratory birds, tells Padmaparna Ghosh that bird flu spreads through respiratory route , and not just the faecal route. Mundkur is on the scientific committee of bird flu of the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO

Publication Date: 
30/07/2006
Padmaparna Ghosh
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Animal Diseases, Poultry, Research, India
Mining

 Answer to the "which came first:chicken or egg?" debate

Film

Publication Date: 
14/07/2006
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Tags:
Poultry, Animal Products, Research, Media, Audiovisuals, United States Of America (US)
India

 Migratory birds fly flu free

Rome meet says poultry and unregulated trade cause spread of avian flu

Publication Date: 
29/06/2006
Padmaparna Ghosh
Down to Earth
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Poultry, Epidemics, Birds, Migratory Species, Research, FAO, Africa, Asia, Europe, Italy
Industry

 South Asia

short of gunnybags: The shortage of gunny bags at government wheat procurement centres in several districts of Pakistan has forced farmers to sell their produce to private buyers below the support

Publication Date: 
14/06/2006
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Seeds, Wheat, Poultry, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia
Animal Care

 Contract killers

Poultry farmers looking down wrong end of the barrel

Publication Date: 
30/05/2006
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Poultry, Contract Farming, Farmers, Maharashtra, Raigad
Industry

 Restore wetlands

restoring lost and degraded wetlands could reduce the threat of bird flu pandemics, claims a study commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (unep).

Publication Date: 
14/05/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Wetlands, Avian Flu, Poultry, Influenza, Birds, Migratory Species, UNEP, Kenya
India

 Avian returns

Bird flu resurfaces, exposes weakness of testing system

Publication Date: 
14/04/2006
T V Jayan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Animal Diseases, Poultry, Health Care, Medical Research, Birds, India, Maharashtra
Industry

 South Asia

flu attacks: Tests have confirmed bird flu cases in Pakistan and Afghanistan, reports the BBC. The virus has been detected in chickens in two farms in north-west Pakistan which have now been sealed

Publication Date: 
14/04/2006
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Animal Diseases, Poultry, Irrigation, Garbage, Waste Disposal, Birds, World Bank, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan
Industry

 In wake of bird flu

Biosecurity system proposed

Publication Date: 
14/04/2006
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Animal Diseases, Poultry, Birds
Industry

 South Asia

smoke threat: Public health in Meherpur district of Bangladesh is at high risk from heavy vehicular emissions due to the use of adulterated fuel. Cases of respiratory and cardiac diseases have

Publication Date: 
30/03/2006
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Vehicular Pollution, Animal Diseases, Poultry, Health Effects, Respiratory Diseases, Fuel Adulteration, Exports, Imports, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka

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