Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences. The authors of this paper show that increased levels of air pollution significantly increase the rate of hospitalisation for people with flu. In addition, they find that protection afforded …
India's West Bengal state has started culling poultry after cases of bird flu, a senior industry executive said Thursday, adding, however, that the outbreak hasn't spread and that it is confined to a small area. There is no panic among consumers and sales are normal, said Shyam Kumar, vice president …
Bird flu has resurfaced in West Bengal with poultry samples from five gram panchayats of Tehatta I block in Nadia district testing positive for H5N1 (avian influenza) at the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) in Bhopal. Sixty teams, comprising 420 people, from the animal resource development department and district …
Ranchi, Sept. 20: The animal husbandry department has asked all district animal officials (DHO) to constantly monitor poultry in their respective areas following a central alert on a bird flu outbreak in Assam’s Dhubri region. Unconfirmed reports also indicated a possible flu threat in Bengal’s Nadia district. “We aren’t sure …
Guwahati: The animal husbandry and veterinary department in Assam has ordered the culling of wild and domestic birds to stop the spread of avian flu in Dhubri district. Personnel from the rapid response team culled nearly 4,500 birds at Bhamundanga, regarded as the epicenter of avian flu in Dhubri. “About …
Rome: The United Nations warned Monday of a possible resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus, saying wild bird migrations had brought it back to previously virus-free countries and that a mutant strain was spreading in Asia. A mutant strain of H5N1, which can apparently sidestep defences of existing vaccines, …
The recent detection of cases of avian influenza in humansunderscores the ongoing risk of human infection with new strains of influenza,says a recent ICDDR,B study. It said two human cases of infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) and one human case of infection with avian influenza A (H9N2) viruseswere detected through …
More than 1,000 field staff of the department of livestock services are now using cell phone and web-based SMS gateway to report Avian Infleunza outbreaks in the poultry farms of 306 upazilas. The DLS staff through SMS reported 144 out of the 161 outbreaks that have occurred during the last …
Once again there is a food safety scare. A deadly strain of E coli bacterium has hit Germany, where it has taken the lives of 25 people and affected another 2,300 till date. German food inspectors on the trail of the source of contamination have as yet made two errors—blaming …
Malda, June 17: A bird flu scare in three villages in the Englishbazar area following the death of hundreds of chickens in the past few days was allayed today after veterinarians confirmed that the poultry was dying from Ranikhet disease that does not affect humans. All birds had been culled …
It will take at least 10 years to eradicate the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has killed scores of humans, from poultry in the six countries where it is endemic, a UN agency said on April 21. The strain of the avian influenza virus was reported in 60 countries at …
Eliminating the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus from poultry in the six countries where it remains endemic will take ten or more years, according to a FAO report.
Surveillance throughout Tripura has been intensified to monitor further spread of bird flu infection after laboratory tests confirmed H5 strains in the poultry samples collected from state poultry farm, Gandhigram, official sources today said. Tests conducted at ERDDL, Kolkata and High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal have confirmed that …
AGARTALA, March 7: H5 strains of avian influenza have been confirmed in the poultry samples collected from State Poultry Farm at Gandhigram, Agartala, Tripura. The samples collected from the infected site were forwarded to the ERDDL, Kolkata and High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal for testing. The test conducted …
AGARTALA, March 6: Fresh cases of avian influenza or bird flu have been detected in another Tripura poultry farm, and culling of birds is expected to start on Monday, an official said here on Sunday.
Sipahijala sanctuary Agartala, March 3: Close on the heels of an avian flu outbreak in the state, an unidentified disease has claimed the lives of 10 birds of varied species and three animals in the Sipahijala sanctuary in the past three days. Authorities of the santuary, 30km south of this …
SURI, 27 DEC: The district animal resource development (ARD) department has begun vaccinating country chickens as part of its anti-bird flu measure. The department has engaged self-help groups (SHG) from various blocks to do the job. The ARD department started the vaccination programme after temperature started dipping from the middle …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: There is need for a concerted and coordinated effort by different countries to promote awareness and prevent outbreak of a pandemic like avian influenza, said officials of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) here on Monday. A disease like the bird flu is not the problem for …
