Animal Diseases

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …

Centre issues a travel advisory on swine flu

India on Monday asked its citizens to avoid

National Institute of Virology ready to test swine flu samples

Pune The National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune has expressed its readiness to test samples of swine flu in the event of an outbreak in the country. Officials at NIV said that they were given instructions to step up the preparedness at their laboratory. After SARS and H5N1 bird …

Swine flu claims 81 lives

MEXICO CITY: Governments around the world rushed on Sunday to check the spread of a new type of swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico and infected around a dozen in the United States. Mexicans huddled in their homes while U.S. hospitals tracked patients with flu …

Asia on alert as swine flu spreads

CATHERINE BREMER MEXICO CITY World health officials on Sunday stepped up the battle against a new swine flu, blamed for dozens of deaths in Mexico, as the US declared a public emergency amid signs the disease was spreading. The US will screen visitors from infected areas as 20 cases were …

Migratory birds test negative for avian influenza

S.Ganesan Bird movements tracked to determine relation between locations and H5N1 outbreaks STUDYING THE DISEASE FACTOR: S.Balachandran, Assistant Director, BNHS, releasing a bar-headed goose that was fitted with a transmitter at Koonthankulam. TIRUCHI: Over 500 swab samples collected so far from migratory birds under an international surveillance project on avian …

2000 chickens culled in Savar after bird flu detection

Over 2000 chickens were culled in a poultry farm here Wednesday night following detection of bird flu. Sources at the Upazila Veterinary Hospital said some chickens died at the poultry farm of Shahjahan Chowdhury in Rajashan Ghasmahal area in the last few days. When samples of the dead chicken were …

No Horsing around, equine flu outbreak

Ahmedabad : If you are a horse owner, stay put! That is the status for all horse owners across Gujarat, as the state is in the grip of equine flu for the first time. This rather ominous news, was given on Saturday by the National Research Center on Equines (NRCE), …

Health authorities gear up to prevent anthrax

April 9: The district medical and health authorities have alerted people in the city to take precautionary measures against anthrax. This warning was given in the wake of three deaths suspected to be caused by cutaneous anthrax in Visakhapatnam and confirmed incidence of the disease in Prakasam, Srikakulam, Chittoor, Kurnool …

Wild Ass vulnerable to flu

Ahmedabad: An anxious animal husbandry department has been on its toes ever since suspected equine flu struck city police stables and claimed four horses. Equally concerned is the forest department as Gujarat's pride, the endangered Wild Ass in Rann of Kutch, is very vulnerable to the virus. In 1962-63, equine …

Equine flu can hit Wild Asses too

Ahmedabad: An anxious animal husbandry department has been on its toes ever since suspected equine flu struck city police stables and claimed four horses. The forest department is concerned as Gujarat's pride, the endangered Wild Ass in Rann of Kutch, is vulnerable to the virus. Currently, the number in Gujarat …

Bird flu claims 215 lives since 2003

Surinder Sud / New Delhi April 6, 2009, 0:16 IST A total of 215 people have died due to officially confirmed cases of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) infection in different countries since 2003. Of these, six deaths have been reported in the first three months of this …

White tigress fights cancer, undergoes first round of chemotherapy

Mumbai The first course of chemotherapy for the 12-year-old white tigress, Renuka, at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) was completed on Tuesday, forest officials said. A week back Renuka was diagnosed with a type of skin cancer, malignant melanoma. The forest department is planning to carry out a blood …

Rare cancer hits white tigress

Mumbai A 12-year-old white tigress at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park

Vizag under anthrax scare

DC CORRESPONDENTS HYDERABADNISAKHAPATNAM March 21: The state health department has dispatched rapid response medical teams to Vishakapatnam agency areas where 15 to 20 cases of Cutaneous Anthrax were confirmed. A team of microbiologists and skin specialists sent there have confirmed the cases as Cutaneous Anthrax afflicted. The director of health, …

Foresters are content with retired vets

An interview with Bal Mukund Arora, the first veterinarian to be appointed wildlife epidemiologist in India. In his three decades at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute at Izzatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, he founded a centre for wildlife diseases. He has recently published the country

Check on birds for avian influenza continues

ERODE: Animal Husbandry Department, Erode, continues its check on birds for avian influenza. According to sources in the Department, an officer in the rank of Assistant Director visits the Vellode Bird Sanctuary on Fridays to arrival of new birds, death of birds, unusual avian mortality, if any, etc. The Department

African jumbo dies of arthritis

MYSORE, DHNS: An African female elephant housed at Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, Mysore died on Monday. She was 44 years and one of the oldest inmates of the zoo. Zoo Executive Director Vijayranjan Singh told Deccan Herald that the zoo had procured a pair of African Elephants ' Jambi' and …

Dietary modulation of gut microflora in broiler chickens: a review of the role of six kinds of alternatives to in-feed antibiotics

Since in-feed antibiotics (IFAs) are being taken out of broiler diets around the world, beginning in Sweden in the year 1986, the search for alternatives to replace IFAs has gained increasing interest in animal nutrition. Gut microflora appears to be the target for IFAs and alternatives to exert health benefits …

Shaken and stirred

Disturbed soils spread harmful bacteria IN THE last 20 years, the rural areas of Australia

Drug-resistant parasites pose a threat to livestock, says expert from Belfast

SIVAGANGA: Development and spread of parasites that were drug resistant were a main threat to productivity and sustainability of livestock-based agriculture industry, said Dr. Gerry Brennan of Queen

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