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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. …
China health authorities confirmed a new case of a man being infected by the H7N9 strain of avian influenza, state news agency Xinhua said late on Saturday. According to Xinhua, a 53-year-old man is being treated in hospital in…
More than 1,000 wild birds, mostly geese, have been found dead in the Mighan wetland in central Iran, the environmental protection organisation told state news agency IRNA on Monday. IRNA said 63,000 chickens, along with 800,000 fertilised eggs and…
The Hokkaido prefectural government on Friday announced the first case of a highly virulent strain of bird flu virus in poultry in Japan’s northernmost island prefecture. With a highly pathogenic H5 strain confirmed in a detailed analysis, the Hokkaido…
An outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed at a farm with 5,000 turkeys near Louth in Lincolnshire. The birds have been affected with the virulent H5N8 strain of the disease. A 3km protection zone and a 10km…
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…
Twenty days after a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was first detected in South Korea, the epidemic shows no sign of abating. Nearly 3.4 million poultry had been culled as of Monday morning. According to the Ministry of Agriculture,…
The Niigata Prefectural Government completed the culling of 540,000 chickens at two poultry farms Sunday to contain an outbreak of the highly virulent H5 strain of bird flu. About 230,000 chickens were killed at a farm in Joetsu, following…
The Japanese authorities have ordered to slaughter more than 320 thousand birds after detecting new cases of highly contagious avian influenza in several farms of the north of the country, in what is the first case of this type…
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…