Saudi Arabia has imposed a ban on imports of poultry meat and egg products from the Canadian province of Ontario over the detection of avian influenza at three farms. Recently, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed 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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Nearly 1,65,000 birds have been culled in North Korea in order to limit a massive bird flu outbreak caused by a toxic strain of H5N1 virus. The mass culling was carried out after authorities identified that the ducks in the Tudan Duck ...
According to National Bureau of Statistics of China, Chinese agricultural products' price in 36 major Chinese cities declined for the third consecutive week. The Ministry of Commerce said in a statement that the average wholesale price ...
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H7N9 is a serotype of the species Influenzavirus A (avian influenza virus or bird flu virus). H7 normally circulates amongst avian populations with some variants known to occasionally infect humans. An H7N9 virus was first reported to have ...
China has culled all poultry at Huhuai produce market in Songjiang district of Shanghai in order to limit a bird flu outbreak caused by a new strain of H7N9 virus. The culling was carried out after authorities from the China's Ministry of ...
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An estimated 582,000 chicken across seven farms have been affected by the bird flu virus outbreak in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. The virus was confirmed after security laboratory technicians of high security laboratory of the ...
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A case of H5N1 bird flu has been identified during initial tests at a duck farm in state of Brandenburg, Germany, a development which has led to the culling of 14,000 ducks. The bird flu was identified following tests conducted by the ...
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Philippines has lifted the temporary ban on the importation of poultry and other poultry from Taiwan after global animal health authorities confirmed that the country is free of the bird flu virus. The ban has been lifted on the ...
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