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South Korea said Wednesday it is speeding up efforts to cull poultry around farms infected with highly pathogenic bird flu amid growing concerns over the virus spreading nationwide. The country has culled 5.59 million birds as preventive measures since reporting…
PEOPLE are being advised not to touch sick or dead birds after suspected cases of bird flu in Warwickshire. Cases of avian influenza were recently confirmed in swans in Evesham, and in Stratford it was reported the bodies of two…
Japan’s worst bird flu outbreak on record spread to new farms this week and has been found in around a quarter of the country’s 47 prefectures, with officials ordering more cullings. About 32,000 birds will be slaughtered and buried in…
Thirteen thousand birds are to be culled at farm in Cheshire after avian flu was confirmed there. The H5N8 strain of bird flu was detected at a broiler breeders premises in Frodsham, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs…
Hundreds of birds are to be culled at a farm in Kent where an outbreak of avian influenza of the H5N2 strain has been detected. A 1km restricted zone has been placed around the premises near Deal “to prevent the…
The detection of several cases of avian influenza in the Netherlands has set the EU on red alert for the possibility of spread elsewhere, leaving the country itself on ‘high alert’ and preparing a mass culling of animals. Avian influenza…
The Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Bureau of Animal Industry has detected the presence of the highly infectious H5N6 subtype of the influenza A virus in an egg-producing farm in San Luis town in Pampanga province. Upon confirming the report, a…
After an absence of 14 months, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has returned to Iraq. The H5N8 virus subtype was identified after more than 21,700 poultry died at a farm in the north of the country earlier this month, according…
Vietnam has so far this year culled 137,180 birds to contain the spreading of bird flu outbreaks, the government said on Thursday. The outbreaks, including 38 outbreaks of H5N6 and five outbreaks of H5N1, have been detected in 13 out…
More than 100,000 poultry have been culled in 10 provinces and cities of Vietnam where A/H5N6 and A/H5N1 bird flu broke out, Vietnam News Agency cited the country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as reporting on Wednesday. The Vietnamese…
