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Eighteen new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza were reported in Nigeria last week. The H5N1 outbreaks occurred in Katsina, Sokoto and Bauchi provinces, among others. Mostly layers and pullets were affected, but some broilers, geese and other birds…
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs banned the transport of poultry and eggs from all poultry farms in Gyeonggi Province, Saturday, after a new avian influenza case was confirmed on a duck farm in Icheon. The order…
More than 16,000 chickens on a farm in Chutang Township, Changhua, were culled Saturday due to an outbreak of avian influenza, the county’s Animal Disease Control Center said. The center was notified Friday by the national Animal Health Research…
H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza has been found at fifteen more locations in Nigeria. The outbreaks affected six backyard and nine farm premises in the Plateau and Kano regions. Mostly layers were affected, but also some broilers and turkeys.…
More than 12,000 chickens and geese have been culled at two poultry farms in Central and Southern Taiwan after health officials confirmed bird flu infections at those farms, local government officials said Sunday. Tung Meng-chih (董孟治) , director of…
Six new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been found in Taiwan. The outbreaks affected goose and chicken farms in Pingtung, Changhua, Tainan City and Yunlin counties, and were detected after abnormal mortality levels. One of the…
A total of 5,847 chickens at a poultry farm in Tainan, a municipal city in southern Taiwan, were culled Thursday after the farm confirmed detecting the H5 strain of avian influenza virus, according to the Tainan City Animal Health Inspection…
A new highly pathogenic strain of the H5N2 avian influenza virus has hit a chicken farm in Changhua County, bringing the number of poultry farms around Taiwan affected by the strain of avian flu to 15 since the beginning of…
Avian Influenza, popularly referred to as bird flu, is now in 18 states in Nigeria and has affected over 2.5 million chickens resulting in the loss of several billions of Naira, the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science has said. …
Some 63,500 poultry birds have been destroyed in four local government areas of Plateau state raising the number of birds affected by the latest outbreak of bird flu from 20,000 as reported last week. The head of the Avian…