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Photo By AP / Gerald Herbert No flowers, no poultry industry and now, moreover, without food. That was today the situation of the municipality of Aibonito, where Mayor William Alicea Pérez, fears in particular by the lack of supplies…
The town of San Luis in Pampanga province has completed the slaughter of some 208,000 fowls in a bid to contain the country’s first bird flu outbreak, Mayor Venancio Macapagal said Tuesday. Macapagal told DZMM a total of 170,000…
Zimbabwe and South Africa have lost over one million chickens to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), it has been learnt. The disease hit the two countries recently, threatening the livelihood and food security status of millions of families. …
China’s Inner Mongolia region has culled 66,500 chickens following an outbreak of bird flu that has affected 35,000 birds, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Tuesday. The H5N1 strain of the virus was confirmed at a hen farm in…
About 5,000 chickens have died of H5N1 bird flu, also known as avian influenza at a farm in Dawei, southern Tanintharyi region as of Friday, official media reported Saturday. Sales of eggs and chickens are strictly prohibited in the…
South Korea has imposed a temporary nationwide ban on poultry transportation as it struggles to contain an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 virus, which has led to the slaughter of some 190,000 birds. The first case in this…
More than 20,000 chickens died from an outbreak of H7N9 bird flu in northwest China’s Shaanxi province, official media said on Wednesday citing a local government statement. The outbreak occurred at an egg farm run by Lvxiangyuan Ecology Co…
The Georgia Department of Agriculture reports that the state’s first case of avian influenza (bird flu) has been found in Chattooga County. Chickens, part of a flock of 18,000 birds at a commercial poultry breeding operation tested positive for…
The chicken cull sparked by the nation’s latest bird flu outbreaks fell short of the originally planned goal of 300,000 Sunday as authorities in Miyagi and Chiba prefectures opted to settle for roughly 209,000 and 62,000 chickens, respectively. The…
