In China, the outbreak of the African Swine Fever is expected to result in a 27% drop in the production of pigmeat, the country’s most consumed meat product. Using the OECD-FAO Aglink-Cosimo model, this paper examines the impact of this production shortfall on global markets for livestock products and animal …
Pune Fifty pigs have died in a fortnight in Jalgaon but humans need not worry about swine flu, the animal husbandry department says. The disease that killed the pigs was not swine flu but swine fever, which does not pass on to humans, DS Zagade, commissioner of animal husbandry, said …
PREVENTIVE measures to tackle the possible threat of swine flu continued on Friday as the Chennai Corporation captured 25 more pigs, taking the total number culled to around 150 in the last three days. After attending an emergency meeting of experts and corporation health officials, Corporation Commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni gave …
Dead pigs in China, evil factory farms in Mexico and an Al Qaeda plot involving Mexican drug cartels are a few wild theories seeking to explain a deadly swine flu outbreak that has killed up to 176 people. Nobody knows for sure but scientists say the origins are in fact …
AGARTALA/IMPHAL April 30: Tripura Government has sounded an alert in the state to check an outbreak of the deadly swine flu, official sources said today. The decision to issue the alert was taken last night at a meeting chaired by principal secretary of the Health department Yash Pal Singh.Two health …
April 30: As swine flu panic gripped the city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has served notice to pig breeders to take their animals away from human habitations. The city has over three dozen pig breeding centres and a swine population of 20,000. Pigs are reared mainly by the Erukala …
Underscoring the significance of individual measures that served as the first line of defence against any influenza virus, speakers at a discussion on swine flu said that though the virus seemed to be getting less virulent with time, there was a dire need to create awareness about it and take …
The Minister Health and Family Welfare, AFM Ruhal Haque, on Wednesday urged everyone not to be panicked by Swine flu. He advised all to be aware of this new sub-type of H1N1 virus that has claimed more than 150 lives across the world in the last few days. And he …
Health and Family welfare Minister Dr AFM Ruhul Huq yesterday called upon the people to remain alert on highly contagious Swine Flu, but not to panic about it, as Bangladesh is still free from this virus. The minister made this remark to reporters after holding a eting on this scourge …
April 29: Andhra Pradesh has the third largest pig population in the country but there are no fears of an immediate outbreak of swine flu here since the virus is not known to survive in temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius. For a change we can thank the summer heat. Uttar …
Beijing: Countries like India that have low pork consumption and less pig breeding are as vulnerable to swine fever as countries where pork is widely consumed, an official of the WHO said in Beijing. At this stage, pig is not part of the transmission, Hans Troedsson, the WHO representative in …
NEW DELHI: The Food and Agriculture Organisation is mobilising its teams of experts to help ascertain if the new strain of swine influenza H1N1 virus, which has killed many people in Mexico, had a direct connection to pigs.
The flu virus spreading around the world should not be called "swine flu" as it also contains avian and human components and no pig was found ill with the disease so far, the World Animal Health body said on Monday. A more logical name for it would be "North-American influenza", …
This study evaluates the capability of horizontal subsurface-flow constructed wetlands (SSF CWs) for treating pretreated swine wastewater as a function of contact time (CT) and type of macrophyte under the local conditions of Yucat
