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France will scale back preventive slaughtering of ducks to counter bird flu after the culling of 800,000 birds this month helped slow the spread of the disease in the southwest, the country’s agriculture minister said on Thursday. France resorted…
Hundreds of thousands of ducks are to be culled in three areas of France following a severe outbreak of bird flu. The measure will cover all free range ducks, plus geese, in the Gers, Landes and Hautes-Pyrenees areas. …
South Korea said Tuesday it was expanding a major bird flu cull to try and contain a damaging outbreak that has continued to spread during an all-consuming political crisis. Since the first case of the highly pathogenic H5N6 virus…
A duck farm in France is the latest casualty of the outbreaks of H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza that have been spreading around Europe and beyond in recent weeks. Two thousand ducks died from the disease out of a…
A highly contagious strain of bird flu has killed 500 ducks on a Dutch poultry farm. Scientists at Wageningen University confirmed that the dead birds, which were discovered on Friday, had succumbed to the H5N8 strain. The disease is not…
South Korea has confirmed the country’s first outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus and has ramped up quarantine measures in response, agriculture ministry officials said on Friday. The outbreaks occurred at two poultry farms in the…
Following the outbreak of bird flu in certain regions in Kerala, the state minister for animal husbandry, K Raju, has announced that one lakh ducks will be culled in the state. “Earlier what used to be done was all…
Over 1,000 ducks affected by avian influenza were culled by official teams constituted by the government in various parts of the district on Wednesday. The operations will continue on Thursday, according to officials of the Animal Husbandry Department. Special…
For three weeks, 200 ducks, but also of coots and seagulls, died at the Grandlieu Lake. The botulidme-related mortality. “Botulism is a disease that produces a toxin and birds in is nourishing come become intoxicated and can quite quickly”…
A large flock of mallard ducks at Brenderup farm in western Funen has been infected with low pathogenic avian influenza. Although this type of bird flu is not dangerous to humans, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (DFVA) has…
