Ghana’s Veterinary Service Department has sought to allay concerns that the outbreak of bird flu in Nigeria is likely to be imported into Ghana. The Veterinary Services Department deputy director Dr. Kenneth Gbeddy assured that the ...
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China has imposed a ban on all imports of poultry, poultry products and eggs from the US, following detection of avian influenza in noncommercial flocks in the Pacific Northwest late last year, according to US Department of Agriculture. ...
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Several Asian markets have decided to restrict the import of Canadian poultry following the detection of avian influenza on two farms in British Columbia. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of H5 avian ...
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Ukraine has imposed a ban on all live birds and bird product imports from the UK, the Netherlands and Germany over bird flu outbreak. The ban will continue until the international watchdog ensures that these countries are free from bird ...
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Freight rates for grain runs from South America to the Far East declined on Friday amid low Chinese soybeans demand, oversupply of tonnage and generally bearish sentiment in the Atlantic market. Grain runs basis 60,000 mt on the ...
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The need to prevent and control healthcare acquired infections (HCAI) across Europe, which results in 4.5 to 5 million cases annually, is driving the hand hygiene market in Western Europe. Outbreaks of norovirus and bird flu over the past ...
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Chinese health officials say H7N9 bird flu has killed 19 people in the country so far this year with the number of human infections up to 96. Even as health officials in the affected regions have gone on higher alert to fight the spread ...
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The habit of Googling for an online diagnosis before visiting a GP can provide early warning of an infectious disease epidemic. In a new study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, internet-based surveillance has been found to detect ...
An influenza outbreak has been reported in Spain, where officials said 239 people have been hospitalized, many with H1N1, the strain known as bird flu. Eleven people have died since the start of flu season in October in the country, ...
Some indigenous groups are more susceptible to the effects of the new strain of influenza -- H7N9 -- currently found in China, researchers in Australia said. Senior author Katherine Kedzierska, an associate professor of the University of ...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Officials Confirm First North American Death From H5N1 Bird Flu The first death in North America from H5N1 bird flu has been ...
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An Alberta resident who recently traveled to Beijing died of bird flu, but Canadian health officials say there is no risk of transmission between humans. Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose said the avian flu -- H5N1 -- fatality, ...
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Chickens showed symptoms of avian flu at a farm in a village in the province of Guizhou in China where 8,500 chickens died in December, officials say. Officials at the Ministry of Agriculture in China said the fowl died Dec. 27 and the ...
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The H7N9 bird flu virus does not yet have the ability to easily infect people, a new study indicates. The findings contradict some previous research suggesting that H7N9 poses an imminent threat of causing a global pandemic. The H7N9 ...
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments: Chinese Woman Killed by cNew to Humans A Chinese woman has died from a bird flu strain that has never before affected humans, and the World Health Organization called the ...
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