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Swedish authorities say bird flu was most likely the cause of death of some 3,000 seals off the coast of Sweden and Denmark this year. The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management said on Tuesday that the number of…
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…
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…
Two poultry farms in British Columbia have been placed under quarantine after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Tuesday an avian flu outbreak. At a turkey farm in Abbotsford, B.C., half of the barn’s 11,000 birds have already died from…
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…
Researchers have identified a new tick-borne illness believed to be the cause of a Kansas man’s death this summer. The Centers for Disease Control are investigating a new disease being named the Bourbon Virus that doctors struggled to identify…
15,000 birds dead, 200,000 to be killed due to avian flu in Kerala, India
ANOTHER doctor in Sierra Leone died Thursday due to the deadly Ebola virus, making him the eleventh doctor in the country to die from the disease. Dr. Victor Willoughby, reportedly tested positive for the Ebola virus on Saturday, The Associated…
Dutch authorities say they will slaughter poultry at a cluster of three farms after new cases of bird flu were found in the town of Kamperveen, in the third outbreak in the Netherlands this week. A new infection was detected…
