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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Avian flu hits Tripura again
A week after declaring Kamalpur subdivision avian flu- free zone, fresh outbreak of the deadly disease has been reported at Mohanpur and its adjacent villages in West Tripura district. The most affected areas were Kalacherra, Mantala, Bijoynagar, Mohinipur, Mohanpur, Ishanpur and Hejamar, close to Bangladesh. "The Bhopal-based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory confirmed the outbreak at Mohanpur where eight chicks died mysteriously recently', said U Vankeswarlu, State's principal secretary of Animal Resource Development (SRD) here on Tuesday.
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Fresh outbreak of bird flu in Tripura
Even as the Tripura Government was fighting bird flu menace, the fresh outbreak of the disease was reported from Sidhai Mohanpur area, about 25 km from here. The area falls under the Indo-Bangladesh border and incidents of death of chickens and a few other birds were being reported from the area. However, official confirmation of the dreaded avian disease was still awaited though sources in the Animal Husbandry Department have found the presence of H5N1 virus in the blood samples of the sick birds.
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No fresh bird flu case reported in Tripura'
AGARTALA: No fresh positive case of avian flu was reported from anywhere other than Mohanpur area in Dhalai district, said Animal Resource Development (ARD) Minister Aghore Debbarma. The Minister said that the department had collected blood samples from different places till April 13 and sent the collected slides to Bhopal based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory for testing. "All the blood samples were tested negative', he said here on Wednesday. Debbarma said that blood slides collected from six different places would be sent to the laboratory for testing on Thursday.
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No fresh cases of bird flu detected in Tripura: Minister
The Tripura Government is continuing the surveillance operations throughout the State even though no fresh cases of bird flu have been detected after conclusion of the culling operations in Kamalpur subdivision of Dhallai district yesterday. This was stated by Tripura Animal Resource Minister Aghor Debbarma at a press meet at the State Secretariat here today. He said after culling of nearly 40,000 birds in Kamalpur, no fresh cases of Avian Influenza have been reported from any part of the state.
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Gov't eyes new method to speed up production of vaccine against new flu
Gov't eyes new method to speed up production of vaccine against new flu Wednesday 16th April, 10:10 AM JST TOKYO
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Indonesia Says To Launch Bird Flu Pandemic Plan
Indonesia Says To Launch Bird Flu Pandemic Plan INDONESIA: April 15, 2008 JAKARTA - Indonesia, which has the highest death toll from bird flu of any country, will launch a plan later this week to deal with a possible influenza pandemic, officials said on Monday. Heru Setijanto, head of surveillance and monitoring at the national commission for bird flu control, said the plan would be followed up a week later by a three-day pandemic simulation involving several villages on the resort island of Bali.
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Bird flu hits West Bengal again
Nearly a month after four million birds culled, a fresh outbreak of avian influenza hit West Bengal's Murshidabad district early last month. The reappearance of the virus (see
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Woman's Death Lifts Egypt Bird Flu Toll To 22
Woman's Death Lifts Egypt Bird Flu Toll To 22 EGYPT: April 14, 2008 CAIRO - An Egyptian woman died of bird flu on Friday, the 22nd fatality and the 49th case of the disease among humans in Egypt, the state news agency MENA said. Wala Ahmed Abdel Galil, 30, from the northeast Cairo suburb of Mataria, fell ill after coming into contact with sick domestic birds, the agency said, quoting the Ministry of Health.
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Indonesia, US to meet on bird flu crisis
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will meet the top US health official on Monday to discuss the bird flu crisis that has killed 107 people here, his spokesman said. US Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt is in Indonesia on a one-day visit, the president's spokesman said. "He will meet the president this afternoon to discuss cooperation in health, with the bird flu issue high on the agenda," said spokesman Dino Patti Djalal. Indonesia is the country worst hit by bird flu, with 107 people known to have died from the disease, 13 of them this year.
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Bird flu haunts farmers
Breeders yesterday said retail prices of poultry will go up further unless farmers now move to restart farming at an increased pace. The warning came amid a slow recovery in the demand for poultry following the decline in bird flu spread. But many farmers remain reluctant in resuming farming with bird flu still haunting them.