India free from bird flu: Govt
The government today announced that the country is free of bird flu disease, but continues to keep a watchful eye on vulnerable areas.
Bird flu, also know as avian influenza, is a flu that affects b
Bird flu strain that killed man won't spread: China
The strain of bird flu that killed a Chinese bus driver won't spread to other people, a health agency said on Monday. The Shenzhen Disease Control Center appealed for calm while officials investigated
Hong Kong raises bird flu alert level, bans imports
Hong Kong raised its bird flu alert level to 'serious' on Tuesday and announced it is to cull 17,000 chickens after three birds tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.
The city's hea
Killer flu virus threat over-hyped: Dutch scientist
A top Dutch scientist heading a team which created a mutant killer flu virus on Wednesday said the threat to global biosecurity is being overplayed, even if full research results are published.
"The
Bird Flu killing crows in Jharkhand
In a worrying development, hundreds of crows have died in Jharkhand due to bird flu, a government official said Thursday.
The crows first started dying mysteriously last month in Jamshedpur district.
Tripura on fresh bird flu alert, bans poultry imports
Sounding fresh bird flu alert, the Tripura government has imposed a ban on import of poultry birds, ducks and other poultry products from West Bengal and Assam, an official said on Saturday.
"The ban
India confirms bird flu in West Bengal
India Tuesday confirmed that there were cases of bird flu in West Bengal after samples collected from Nadia district in the state tested positive, officials said here.
The government also ordered cul
West Bengal confirms bird flu, culling begins
The culling of birds began on Tuesday in West Bengal's Nadia district after the union health ministry confirmed that samples had tested positive for bird flu, an official said.
"We have started culli
Bird flu alert in Assam, culling of 30,000 birds likely
An alert has been sounded across Assam following detection of bird flu virus in Dhubri district, a top police official said on Saturday.
A Bhopal-based forensic laboratory confirmed that the samples
Birdflu outbreak in Agartala
New Delhi: The birdflu outbreak in Agartala in Tripura has been caused by the highly virulent H5 strain which if transmitted to humans can be deadly.
The samples from Government Duck Farm, R.K. Naga