China culls 18,000 chickens after H5N1 bird flu cases in Hunan province
A city in China's central Hunan province reported that it had culled almost 18,000 chickens after an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in statement on its website Saturday. The statement didn't say when the outbreak occurred, or ...
Bird flu found on turkey farms in Poland, Europe's largest poultry producer
Bird flu has been detected in turkeys in eastern Poland, authorities said on Wednesday, and local media reported that the outbreak could require up to 40,000 birds to be slaughtered. Poland, Europe's largest poultry producer, according to data from Eurostat, has not had an outbreak ...
On a Baltic Sea island once used by the Nazis for biological weapon research, German scientists are developing virus vaccines that could save lives. Access to the island of Riems is highly restricted. Scientists who work there have to have disinfectant showers when entering or ...
When is it OK for health officials to panic?
The Environment Ministry said Wednesday that a highly pathogenic, H5N6-type avian influenza virus was detected in a dead northern goshawk found earlier this month at a park in Tokyo's Ota Ward. The news prompted the Tokyo Zoological Park Society, which manages four public zoos, including ...
Kagawa culling 92,000 chickens to fend off bird flu outbreak on Shikoku
Authorities in Kagawa Prefecture were culling about 92,000 chickens Friday after the highly pathogenic H5 strain of avian influenza was detected the previous day. The outbreak was confirmed at a poultry farm in Sanuki after chickens tested positive during genetic tests, making it the first ...
A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza killed chickens at a farm in Kagawa Prefecture, in the first outbreak to be confirmed among livestock in Japan this season.
New H7N9 bird flu strain in China has pandemic potential, U.S.-Japanese lab studies find
Lab experiments on a new strain of the H7N9 bird flu suggest the virus can pass easily among animals and can cause lethal disease, raising alarms that it has the potential to create a global human pandemic. The H7N9 virus has been circulating in China ...
Three mutations could make bird flu a pandemic illness, study says
Scientists have identified three mutations that, if they occurred at the same time in nature, could turn a strain of bird flu now circulating in China into a potential pandemic virus that could spread among people. The flu strain, known as H7N9, now mostly infects ...
Bird flu toll in Miyagi, Chiba kept down to 270,000 chickens
The chicken cull sparked by the nation's latest bird flu outbreaks fell short of the originally planned goal of 300,000 Sunday as authorities in Miyagi and Chiba prefectures opted to settle for roughly 209,000 and 62,000 chickens, respectively. The two prefectures north of Tokyo were ...
300,000 chickens doomed as bird flu spreads to Miyagi, Chiba
Authorities in Miyagi and Chiba prefectures began culling nearly 300,000 chickens Friday after the highly pathogenic H5 strain of bird flu was detected in dead chickens at local poultry farms. In Japan's latest bird flu outbreak, the Miyagi Prefectural Government plans to cull 220,000 chickens ...
How China can stop the world's next pandemic
The deadliest outbreak of H7N9 bird flu since its discovery in 2013 is sweeping across China.
