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 …
Ahmedabad: Many restaurants and hotels in the city have stopped serving chicken dishes on their own, to safeguard their custom from bird flu related complications, after the state government issued a bird flu alert on a 10-km radius around a poultry farm in Hathijan, Ahmedabad district. Some restaurants have begun …
A team from Health Ministry set to visit the site today. Fearing the spread of avian influenza (H5N1) to other areas, about 1,500 birds, many of them rare, at an animal helpline — Asha Foundation — in Ahmedabad were culled by the state animal husbandry department Wednesday. The process to …
BHUBANESWAR: With deaths of birds reported from several places and cases of bird flu confirmed in the state, chicken and egg business has got affected badly in the capital city. Traders said, they made huge loss during the picnic and feasting season of Christmas and New Year as the sale …
South Korea on Monday mobilized armed forces to play an active part in its biggest-ever poultry cull as the spread of a highly contagious strain bird flu continued, ordering that another 1.6 million birds be destroyed in affected areas within 24 hours. The latest cull, announced in a statement by …
HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong food safety authority said on Thursday that it has banned the import of poultry meat and products from a prefecture in southwestern Japan following an outbreak of bird flu. Following a notification from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) about an outbreak of …
China has reported two new cases of human bird flu infection, bringing the total this week to three, stoking fears about the spread of the deadly virus at a time when other Asian nations are battling to control outbreaks of the disease. A man diagnosed with the H7N9 strain of …
Japan has started culling more than 300,000 chickens and ducks after the discovery of a highly contagious form of bird flu on farms in the north of the country, local officials said. The bird flu outbreaks are the first in nearly two years in Japan and news of the cullings …
On Friday, South Korea's agriculture ministry issued a temporary nationwide standstill order for poultry farms and other related transport that took effect over the weekend. The standstill order is the ministry's way to contain a wider spread of H5N6 bird flu, which is a severe strain of the avian flu. …
Poultry farmers have been advised to take measures to prevent the disease spreading About 190,000 ducks have been culled in the Netherlands as the authorities try to prevent the spread of bird flu across northern European countries. The slaughter involved six farms, following the discovery of a virus in the …
BERLIN – The news agency dpa reports that some 8,800 geese on two poultry farms will be culled in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein because some of the animals are infected with the bird flu. Dpa said Sunday it was not clear yet whether the birds were infected with …
An influenza pandemic remains a major public health concern. A key strategy to prevent a pandemic is to stockpile and pre-position stable influenza vaccine to allow rapid deployment in response to an outbreak. However, most influenza vaccines today are formulated as liquids that are stable only within a temperature range …
BHUBANESWAR: Along with Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and dengue, the threat of swine flu seems to have added to the woes of the State Government forcing it to issue an advisory to the health officials at the district level and authorities of Government medical colleges and hospitals to remain alert to …
Authorities in Gurgaon closed the Sultanpur National Park “until further notice”, as a “precautionary measure” a day after samples from five dead ducks found in Hisar tested positive for bird flu. The ducks were found at Blue Bird Tourist Complex in Hisar on November 1 and had been sent for …
Special teams will monitor poultry farms in Namakkal to prevent the spread of the avian influenza that has been reported in Alappuzha region in Kerala, and checkposts have been put up on Coimbatore-Kerala border to prevent the entry of flu-infected poultry birds. The district administration in Namakkal has formed 50 …
With avian influenza outbreak reported in some parts of the country, the Health Department has sounded all chief district medical officers (CDMOs) to prepare a contingency plan for surveillance. Process to deploy rapid response teams, screening, case management facility and measures for protection of officials during culling need to be …
A novel highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N8 virus, first detected in January 2014 in poultry and wild birds in South Korea, has spread throughout Asia and Europe, and caused outbreaks in Canada and the United States by the end of the year. The spread of H5N8 and the novel …
Humans will not contract virus, culling to begin tomorrow With all the 12 samples sent to the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases, Bhopal, diagnosed as positive, the authorities have kick-started anti-bird flu offensive in the district. According to J. Hariharan of the Animal Husbandry Department, the birds are …
"The Centre-appointed Committee to look into the bird flu situation at the zoo has also been apprised of the death," a zoo official said. Another water bird succumbed to suspected H5N1 Avian Influenza at the National Zoological Park here today. “A rosy pelican died at the zoo today. We have …
Vaccination is one process through which the birds can be protected but it is not followed in India. Hyderabad: The Centre has issued a health advisory to poultry owners to minimise human-bird interface due to avian influenza being reported in Delhi and Madhya Pradesh. Poultry owners in TS have been …
CHENNAI: Outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in the Upper Kuttanadu region in Kerala has sent the poultry farmers in Tamil Nadu in a quandary as it may hit their trade and the top authorities of the government have initiated precautionary measures. A large number of ducks have been …
