African Swine Fever detected in the North West
Zeerust in the North West has reportedly been hit by an African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak. It was reported to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) on Wednesday, according to the Department
Avian Flu
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Bird flu back in Bengal district, culling begins
Bird flu has resurfaced in West Bengal with poultry samples from five gram panchayats of Tehatta I block in Nadia district testing positive for H5N1 (avian influenza) at the High Security Animal Disease
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Alert after Assam flu
Ranchi, Sept. 20: The animal husbandry department has asked all district animal officials (DHO) to constantly monitor poultry in their respective areas following a central alert on a bird flu outbreak
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Flu alert in Assam, 4,500 birds culled
Guwahati: The animal husbandry and veterinary department in Assam has ordered the culling of wild and domestic birds to stop the spread of avian flu in Dhubri district. Personnel from the rapid
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Mutant strain of bird flu spreading in Asia, warns UN
Rome: The United Nations warned Monday of a possible resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus, saying wild bird migrations had brought it back to previously virus-free countries and that a mutant strain
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519 outbreaks reported in country since 2007
The recent detection of cases of avian influenza in humansunderscores the ongoing risk of human infection with new strains of influenza,says a recent ICDDR,B study. It said two human cases of infection
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SMS programme in 306 upazilas to combat avian flu
More than 1,000 field staff of the department of livestock services are now using cell phone and web-based SMS gateway to report Avian Infleunza outbreaks in the poultry farms of 306 upazilas. The DLS staff through SMS reported 144 out of the 161 outbreaks that have occurred during the last wave of bird flu outbreak beginning in January 2011 after successive two lean years. The SMS surveilla
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Birds die but flu ruled out
Malda, June 17: A bird flu scare in three villages in the Englishbazar area following the death of hundreds of chickens in the past few days was allayed today after veterinarians confirmed that the poultry was dying from Ranikhet disease that does not affect humans. All birds had been culled on a war footing in the area in 2008 and the following year when the locality was hit by the avian flu v
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It will take years to eradicate H5N1 bird flu virus
It will take at least 10 years to eradicate the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has killed scores of humans, from poultry in the six countries where it is endemic, a UN agency said on April 21.
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Approaches to controlling, preventing and eliminating H5N1 HPAI in endemic countries
<p>Eliminating the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus from poultry in the six countries where it remains endemic will take ten or more years, according to a FAO report.</p>
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Bird flu surveillance in Tripura on
Surveillance throughout Tripura has been intensified to monitor further spread of bird flu infection after laboratory tests confirmed H5 strains in the poultry samples collected from state poultry farm, Gandhigram, official sources today said. Tests conducted at ERDDL, Kolkata and High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal have confirmed that the samples from the State poultry farm