http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A top Taiwan agriculture official stepped down Sunday amid allegations he covered up bird flu outbreaks, a day after authorities said they had culled thousands of chickens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-taiwan-bird-flu-cover-up.html Other Sun, 04 Mar 2012 05:30:38 EST news250061431 Taiwan's authorities said Saturday they had culled nearly 58,000 chickens following the latest outbreak of the less virulent strain of bird flu. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-taiwan-chicken-cull-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:59:50 EST news250001985 Urinary tract infections are common conditions that occur when bacteria from the intestines enter the urinary tract. New research, however, suggests that the bacteria causing these infections may come from contaminated food - especially chickens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-urinary-tract-infections-linked-contaminated.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:10:45 EST news248962227 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. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-nepal-mass-poultry-cull-bird.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:49:27 EST news247643232 Some 24,000 Australian ducks were being destroyed Wednesday after testing positive for a low pathogenic strain of the bird flu virus, an outbreak which has prompted poultry export bans in parts of Asia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-ducks-australia-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:56:59 EST news247305406 A 24-year-old Indonesian man infected with bird flu died in the capital Jakarta, the health ministry said Tuesday, in the country's third fatal case in three months. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-dies-bird-flu-indonesia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:16:16 EST news245394965 Vietnam has culled more than 2,500 chickens from a farm in the Mekong Delta area in an effort to contain a bird flu outbreak, officials said Thursday, amid heightened fears about the virus in the region. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-vietnam-culls-chickens-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:20:01 EST news244959368 If you think today's political rhetoric is overheated, imagine what goes on inside a vertebrate embryo. There, two armies whose agendas are poles apart, engage in a battle with consequences much more dire than whether the economy will recover---- they are battling for whether you (or frogs or chickens) will have a forebrain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-morphogens-nervous.html Genetics Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:30:11 EST news234109750 Scientists from the University of Abertay Dundee have discovered that a gene which, when severely mutated, causes blindness and kidney abnormalities in chickens, is the same as one that predisposes humans to hypertension. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-mutant-gene-chickens-hypertension.html Genetics Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:19:35 EST news233486353 In economic and epidemiological terms, the practice of culling on farms within a radius of 1 to 3 km of infected farms is the best method of combating Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Vaccinating chickens within a radius of 3 km of an infected farm may at first appear to be cheaper, but it is less effective because the epidemic spreads further and lasts longer. This was one of the findings of a study performed by LEI together with the Central Veterinary Institute (CVI), both part of Wageningen UR. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-culling-effective-vaccinating.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:40:01 EST news232017852 Avian influenza virus is a threat to the commercial chicken industry and, with its recent rapid spread across China, has also shown the ability for transmission from chickens to humans and other mammals. In an article in Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Chinese researchers report that oral chicken interferon-alpha may significantly reduce influenza virus levels when given either preventively or therapeutically. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-oral-interferon-avian-influenza-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:58:56 EST news231080279 (AP) -- The Agriculture Department wants consumers to know when there's less chicken in their chicken. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-govt-clearer-meat-additives.html Health Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:40:45 EST news230485233