Japan culls 42,000 chickens after second bird flu outbreak (Update)
Japan on Monday ordered the slaughter of some 42,000 chickens as officials announced the country's second bird flu outbreak in less than a month.
Dec 29, 2014
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Japan on Monday ordered the slaughter of some 42,000 chickens as officials announced the country's second bird flu outbreak in less than a month.
Dec 29, 2014
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Hong Kong hospitals raised alert levels Sunday as a woman diagnosed with the deadly H7N9 avian flu virus was in a critical condition.
Dec 28, 2014
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Four people have died of bird flu in Libya in recent days, the health minister of the country's internationally recognised government said on Saturday.
Dec 28, 2014
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Germany said it would start testing ducks and geese for bird flu prior to slaughter, after two cases of the highly infectious H5N8 strain were detected in a week.
Dec 22, 2014
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Japan on Tuesday ordered the slaughter of some 4,000 chickens after officials confirmed bird flu at a poultry farm in the southwest of the country.
Dec 16, 2014
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Dec 15, 2014
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The avian influenza outbreak in southwest British Columbia has spread to seven farms, and 155,000 birds have died of the virus or will be euthanized, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said.
Dec 11, 2014
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Health authorities in Egypt on Thursday reported the country's eighth death this year from bird flu.
Dec 11, 2014
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Four poultry farms where an outbreak of avian influenza was discovered in British Columbia are now under quarantine and thousands of their turkeys and chickens will be euthanized, officials said Wednesday.
Dec 3, 2014
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Egypt reported on Wednesday four new deaths from bird flu, taking to seven the number of people that the H5N1 virus has killed in the country so far in 2014.
Dec 3, 2014
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