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The Taiwanese animal health authority has sent two new reports covering new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). There were five new outbreaks of H5N8 avian influenza on poultry farms between…
A major outbreak of avian flu in Taiwan has spread to 19 more farms with a total of 160,000 birds slaughtered in the island’s worst bout of the disease in a decade, authorities said Wednesday. The number of poultry farms…
Taiwan’s agriculture authorities confirmed on Sunday that outbreaks of avian influenza at goose farms in southern Taiwan have been caused by two highly pathogenic viruses — H5N8 and a new type of H5N2 — seen for the first time in…
Japan’s Miyazaki prefectural government has ordered the culling of 42,000 chickens on a farm after a second bird flu outbreak, media reported Monday. Chickens at the poultry farm in the Uranomyo area in Miyazaki tested positive for the H5 strain…
Commercial poultry producers say they’re concerned the outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu virus found in Washington and Oregon will hurt exports by prompting some nations to impose trade barriers. “It’s probably going to be a problem anyway because…
It will be a cautious Christmas for avian farmers in the Fraser Valley, with “bio-security” precautions taking precedence over traditional festive gatherings. Nearly 250,000 chickens and turkeys are either dead or set to be euthanized due to avian flu, which…
German authorities have ordered the cull of thousands of turkeys and chickens days before Christmas after a new outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm in Lower Saxony. All 19,000 turkeys at the farm have already been culled, together…
Italy has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus on a turkey farm in the northeastern part of the country near Venice, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday. The strain, which has…
Dutch authorities on Monday ordered the preventative cull of 50,000 poultry after a bird flu outbreak on a nearby farm was confirmed as the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain. The move came after authorities on Sunday identified bird flu at a…
A case of bird flu has been confirmed at a chicken farm in the Netherlands, the second infection identified in the country this week. The latest case was at a farm in the village of Ter Aar, in South Holland…
