Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now recognized as a major global public health problem which has been aggravated by the irrational use of antimicrobial agents in human and animal health as well as the presence of these agents in the environment. AMR in animal pathogens makes disease treatments ineffective, increases the …
BHUBANESWAR: The Government on Tuesday sent 10 more samples from Betanati in Mayurbhanj to the High Security Animal Diseases Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal, for testing even as the region has been declared a restricted zone awaiting Central advisory for culling. A high alert has been issued by the Fisheries and Animal …
BHUBANESWAR: With bird flu scare gripping several parts of the State, the Nandankanan Zoo on Tuesday went into a precautionary mode sanitising the sprawling facility and effecting preventive measures. The zoo authorities rid the entire premises of stray dogs. All poultry birds, including chicken, on the zoo premises were eliminated …
More than 4600 fowls from 25 villages of East Garo Hills district in Meghalaya were culled to contain the spread of bird-flu, officials here said on Wednesday. “We expect to cross the 5000 mark today when culling operation is left in only two villages within 3 km from the epi-centre,” …
Shillong, Jan. 16: The East Garo Hills district administration will continue culling for another week even after more than 2,500 chickens were slaughtered. More villagers have come forward to report the disease in the control rooms set up in East Garo Hills after an increase in the compensation for the …
DHENKANAL: The bird flu panic has made its way to the mid-day meal scheme too. Hundreds of students of various primary schools in Dhenkanal district have refused to take eggs in their noon meal. As many as 1,700 schools with 1.10 lakh children come under the Sarva Sikshya Abhiyan in …
SHILLONG: Culling and mopping operations will continue for the next five days in Meghalaya to contain the spread of bird-flu in East Garo Hills district, official sources said. "Until last evening, 3026 fowls were subjected to hygienic culling by the district administration, even as specialised teams of Rapid Response Teams …
Fresh deaths of domesticated fowls have been reported in Meghalaya, even as the culling of birds in a three-kilometre radius of the bird-flu epicentre of Williamnagar in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills entered its third day Sunday, an official said. More than 2,321 birds, including domesticated fowls, were culled and buried …
Bhubaneswar: In a bid to check spread of bird flu, the Odisha government on Thursday began culling of fowls within three km radius of Keranga in Khurda district as advised by the Centre, official sources said. The culling of poultry has been launched at a private firm in Keranga and …
BARIPADA: Come Sankranti, this part of north Odisha is all set to raise a toast to roosters. And though there is nothing attractive about the bloodsport in which cocks get wounded and killed, that is unlikely to prevent betting on the sport. Throwing caution to the wind and ignoring police …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government on Wednesday ordered culling of poultry birds in a radius of 3 km from Keranga village in Khurda where the first avian influenza positive cases were reported on Sunday. The Fisheries and Animal Husbandry Department said the culling will start with immediate effect. Compensation for the …
ROURKELA: Mysterious death of nearly three dozen crows has led to fears of breakout of Ranikhet Disease also known as Newcastle Disease. Sources said around 16 crows were spotted dead in Bonai and another 19 in Sundargarh town on Wednesday. To check the disease from spreading among the poultry and …
Bhubaneswar: Bird flu has been reported from Betanati in Mayurbhanj district and Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district after Keranga in Khurda district. Following the death of large number of crows and poultry, the state government, which has sounded a high alert in the two districts, has sent blood samples of the …
BARIPADA: Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, bordering Jharkhand, has been put on high alert to avoid poultry birds carrying HSN1 virus sneaking in from the neighbouring state, said Mayurbhanj CDVO Nityananda Das on Tuesday. Surveillance has been stepped up in the seven blocks of Raruan, Jashipur, Tiring, Bahalda, Gorumahisani, Saraskana and Jamda …
Bhubaneswar: Bird flu was detected for the first time in Odisha as the central laboratory confirmed the virus in two dead fowls in Khurda district, official sources said on Monday. The Centre on Sunday communicated to the state about the detection of H5N1 virus in two dead poultry found in …
Good news for poultry farm and abattoir owners. Disposal of huge quantities of chicken feathers will soon no longer be an arduous task, thanks to a new micro-organism that can disintegrate the protein in them in just about 30 hours. Chicken feathers usually take five to seven years to disintegrate …
Health authorities in Hong Kong are urging residents to take steps to ensure personal hygiene, and the city remains on high alert following the bird-flu-related death of a man in mainland China. Renewed fears in Hong Kong came as Chinese authorities said preliminary tests showed the Shenzhen man, who died …
The Bangalore-based Project Directorate on Animal Disease Monitoring and Surveillance (PDADMAS) has developed a Web-based interactive software to predict livestock diseases two months in advance in the country. PDADMAS functions under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and has been forecasting animal diseases. Diseases As part of this project, …
The disposal of chicken feathers, that are generated in huge quantities at poultry farms and at meat shops, will now be an easy task with the biotechnology department of Kolhapur’s Shivaji University identifying a new microorganism that disintegrates feathers within 30 hours. The department’s head, Jyoti Jadhav and her research …
Health workers here began slaughtering more than 17,000 chickens on Wednesday after a carcass infected with bird flu was found at a poultry market, government officials said. It was the first large-scale culling in three years. The cull was part of a series of precautionary steps being taken after the …
A Hong Kong school was closed on Friday after a dead bird found in the southern Chinese city was tested positive for the deadly H5 strain of the bird flu virus, health officials said. The closure came after the school clerk, a 48-year-old woman, picked up the sick black-headed gull …
