Bird Flu Pandemic Scare
The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang has become the third province in Vietnam to report bird flu recurrence this year, the Department of Animal Health reported Sunday.
This is the latest news as of February 6th.
"Kathmandu (The Kathmandu Post/ANN) - While government authorities on Sunday confirmed the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Khanar and Itahari in Sunsari district in eastern Nepal, similar outbreaks were reported in Phakphok in Ilam district and Faktep in Panchthar, where more than 400 chickens have died."
I'll post more if I find anything else out.
HEALTH workers to cull thousands of chickens following the discovery of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Himalayan country.
On the same day bird flu outbreak was confirmed in Sunsari district, local authorities in Ilam Sunday said the the similar case was detected in Ilam district also.
Health workers in Nepal are to cull thousands of chickens following the discovery of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the southeastern part of the Himalayan country, officials said Sunday.
About 7,000 fowls were culled Sunday in Odisha capital Bhubaneswar after a bird flu case was detected in a government-run institution, an official said.
This one is for my cousin Christopher:
Bhubaneswar, Feb 4 : Odisha Saturday decided to cull poultry in parts of its capital city Bhubaneswar after a bird flu case surfaced in the city, official said.
I saw this posted Sunday on WWW.SUNDAYOBSERVER.LK.
"The Department of Animal Production and Health (DAPH) has assured that there were no signs of the deadly bird flu virus in chicken that had died in a poultry farm at Bingiriya."