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Hong Kong culled 4,500 birds on Tuesday after the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus was discovered in a chicken at a local market. Health officials in white hazmat suits and masks dumped the chickens into green plastic bins at…
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. …
Hong Kong hospitals raised alert levels Sunday, as a woman diagnosed with the deadly H7N9 avian flu virus was in a critical condition. The 68-year-old woman was hospitalized on Dec. 25 after returning from the southern Chinese city of…
Japan has culled around 4,000 chickens following an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm in the southwest of the country. Three birds tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5 strain of avian influenza at the site in Miyazaki…
On June 4, 2014, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of China notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of four additional laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus. Details of the cases are as follows:…
On April 4, 2014, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of China notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of three additional laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus. A 30-year-old man from Tongling City, Anhui province…
Between March 20 and March 25, 2014, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of China notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of six additional laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus. Details of the…
A middle-aged man was confirmed to have been infected with the H7N9 bird flu virus on Saturday, the Guangdong Provincial Health Department said. Surnamed Li, the 32-year-old lives in Dapeng New District of Shenzhen City. He is under treatment…
Vietnam Bans Chinese Poultry As New Deadly Bird-Flu Virus Strain Reaches Border Vietnam has banned import of poultry over the border with China after the FAO and WHO sounded a warning following a meeting Thursday that the new and virulent H7N9 bird…
Guangxi Boy Confirmed With H7N9 Virus After Mother Contracts Bird Flu, China Guangxi has reported a boy contracted the H7N9 strain of bird flu, a day after his mother was confirmed to have the virus. The Guangxi health bureau said…
