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DHAKA: The authorities have detected a bird flu case at a government poultry farm in Jashore - the first in Bangladesh since 2018 - raising concerns among farmers.
A three-year-and-six-month boy from northeast Cambodia's Kratie province has been confirmed for H5N1 human avian influenza, raising the number of cases to three so far this year.
(Reuters) -The Netherlands, one of the world's largest egg exporters, has launched a pilot program on a laying-hen farm to vaccinate poultry against bird flu with the aim of achieving large-scale vaccination, the government said on Monday.
The Philippine Department of Agriculture said the rapid spread of bird flu in a short period since the first laboratory detection necessitates a wider coverage of trade restrictions.
Concerns grow as corporate dominance and price hikes shake the industry.
MANILA: The Philippines has temporarily banned poultry imports from Indiana, New York, and Pennsylvania due to the bird flu outbreaks in these U.S. states.
A two-year-old girl has died from bird flu in Cambodia, officials said, the South-East Asian nation's second death from the virus this year.
THE Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has imposed a three-month moratorium on poultry sales due to bird flu, Malaysia Nanban reported.
NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday announced that live poultry markets in New York City, and Westchester, Suffolk, and Nassau counties would be shut down for five days to combat the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
Birds can get the flu too, and sometimes, they can pass it on to humans to our detriment.
JERUSALEM, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- An outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, was discovered in a turkey farm in central Israel, the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security said in a statement on Monday.
PHNOM PENH: A 28-year-old Cambodian man died from bird flu on Friday (Jan 10) after eating sick chickens, the health ministry said.
Authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate region.
Japanese authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens on Sunday after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate region.
JERUSALEM, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday reported an outbreak of bird flu in a coop housing 29,300 chickens in the village of Hibat Tzion in central Israel.
Though cases of infection are rare, cats seem especially susceptible to the bird flu virus, or Type A H5N1.
NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Egg prices have increased nationwide by around 38 percent in the last year in the United States, bringing the average cost of one dozen up to 3.65 U.S. dollars in November versus 3.37 dollars in October and 2.14 dollars in November 2023, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index.
HOUSTON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- The southern U.S. state of Louisiana on Monday reported the first human death from bird flu in the country, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
LONDON: Bird farms across England's eastern coast had to enforce preventative bird flu measures starting Monday after a spate of cases were detected in the latest outbreak of the virus.
SACRAMENTO, the United States, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Vital data and analyses from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about dangerous flu outbreaks have been blocked from release since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, leaving doctors and public health experts struggling to respond to escalating infections, U.S. media quoted health experts as saying.
