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 …
Agartala: Timely vaccination of birds and animals, access to standard laboratories and maintaining bio-security are among the measures required to curb the sporadic outbreak of bird flu in India’s northeast, says a team of international and Indian experts touring the region. Experts of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and …
Agartala: Worried at the frequent outbreak of bird flu and its effect on the poultry industry, the Tripura government has decided to urge the Central government to send special expert-teams to study the sporadic resurfacing of the contagious disease, an official said here Saturday. “Sporadic outbreak of bird flu has …
The government has declared four villages in Sunsari and Jhapa districts in eastern Nepal as bird flu affected. The cabinet meeting on Monday decided to send immediate relief to the affected villages and take measures to curb its spread in the neighbouring districts. The meeting also appointed Pramod Mehta as …
AGARTALA: Bird flu has been detected in a government owned poultry farm at Gandhigram, about 18 km from here. Director of Animal Resource department, Manoranjan Sarkar on Saturday said following deaths of poultry in the farm about four days ago, samples were sent to High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) …
Bird flu or avian influenza is threatening Bihar's poultry industry and an SOS has been sent to the central government on tackling the deadly H5N1 virus as the state lacks the resources to do so, a Bihar minister said. The SOS was sent after the Bhopal-based High Security Animal Disease …
After a lull of many months, swine flu infection has reared its head again. A 51-year-old rickshaw puller residing in Katraj was tested positive for the infection and is currently in a critical condition at Bharati Hospital and Medical College. Hospital dean Dr Vivek Saoji confirmed that a H1N1 patient …
In the last 15 days, three workers from one of the markets came down with the flu; however, they have recovered. The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) made the detections. The affected markets are among the 16 …
Washington announced yesterday that it has initiated consultations with New Delhi at the WTO over India's prohibition on imports of US poultry, chicken eggs, and other agricultural products - the first stage in the global trade body's dispute settlement process.
An elite group of 22 influenza scientists, public health officials, and journal editors from 11 countries recommended last week that the details of how a highly pathogenic bird flu virus was rendered capable of being transmitted easily among mammals be published in full. The recommendation, agreed to at a meeting …
Bird flu experts meeting in Geneva have ruled that controversial research on a mutant form of the virus potentially capable of being spread among humans should be made public. Security assessments must however be carried out first before the two studies can be published and the research can continue, scientists …
The World Health Organization has recommended that two reports on avian flu studies by the Japanese and European researchers be fully published, following a US call on two leading scientific journals not to print them completely over fears that detailed information about the lethal virus could be used in bioterrorism. …
WASHINGTON: The full details of recent experiments that made a deadly flu virus more contagious will be published, probably within a few months, despite recommendations by the United States that some information be kept secret for fear that terrorists could use it to start epidemics. The announcement, made on Friday …
Thought bird flu was gone? Recent human deaths in Asia and Egypt are a reminder that the H5N1 virus is still alive and dangerous, and Vietnam is grappling with a new strain that has outsmarted vaccines used to protect poultry flocks. Ten people have died in Cambodia, Indonesia, Egypt, China …
At a time when an outbreak of bird flu have been confirmed in Jhapa, Ilam and Sunsari districts, Dhading, too, saw deaths of thousands of chickens in the past two weeks, raising a fear avian influenza. However, the authorities haven’t confirmed the cause. Local farmers claim that over 20,000 chickens …
A week after bird flu was detected in Sunsari, Panchthar and Ilam, authorities on Sunday confirmed the outbreak of the influenza in three different areas of Jhapa district. Test reports sent by the Veterinary Epidemiology Centre at Tripureshwor in the Capital confirmed bird flu in poultry farms at Pathamari-1, Arjundhara-7 …
Authorities on Wednesday said bird flu virus was not detected in the dead chickens in Satherjhora-8, around 15 km south-west of the two bird flu outbreak sites in Sunsari. It was reportedly claimed that around 500 chickens had died in the past three days in the Satherjhora area from an …
BHUBANESWAR: After the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) and OUAT, the culling operations were conducted in the wards under the impact zone demarcated for the bird flu prevention and control measures. Eight teams were fanned out to around eight of the 29 wards, where culling is to be undertaken. They …
Members of Rapid Response Teams (RRTs), engaged in the culling of poultry birds, on Monday faced an embarrassing situation in Bhubaneswar. As they approached households in slums to collect birds to ward off the spread of the avian influenza, they found all houses locked. Frustrated, the RRTs returned emptied handed. …
Bhubaneswar: With the culling of over 16,000 poultry birds in the second day, the total birds culled during the two days in the 3km radius of the Central Poultry Development Organisation, Bhubaneswar, has been around 36,000. The culling operation was undertaken in 29 wards within the 3km radius of the …
Samples sent from CPDO test positive for avian influenza Members of Rapid Response Teams in association with personnel of Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) culled nearly 20,000 poultry birds on Sunday. The culling operation became essential after Bhopal based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) confirmed that samples of birds …
