Grippe aviaire : le super virus mutant inquiète même les chercheurs

leparisien Friday, February 10, 2012 7:47:00 PM CET | info [en] [other]

L'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) a annoncé vendredi une réunion de deux jours, les 16 et 17 février, pour tenter de déterminer si les scientifiques impliqués dans le développement d'une......

Bird flu suspected in Meghalaya

deccanherald Friday, February 10, 2012 2:02:00 PM CET | info [other]

Fears of bird flu gripped Shillong Friday and Meghalaya state authorities sounded a general alert after a hundred pigeons were found dead in the state capital, an official said. The pigeons have died over a month at Keating Road in the heart of Shillong City, and Thursday three more pigeons died of.......

Grey heron tests positive for H5 virus

7thspace Friday, February 10, 2012 10:43:00 AM CET | info [other]

Hong Kong (HKSAR) - Preliminary testing of a dead grey heron found in Yuen Long has tested positive for the H5 avian influenza virus, a spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said today (February 10), adding that ......

الصحة: الاستفادة من الخبرة السعودية في التعامل مع مخاطر التجمعات الجماهيرية

alwasatnews Friday, February 10, 2012 4:15:00 AM CET | info [en] [other]

تشكل التجمعات الجماهيرية الضخمة في العالم، سواء منها الرحلات الدينية مثل فريضة الحج السنوية إلى المملكة العربية السعودية أو رحلة حج كومبه ميلا الضخمة في الهند أو الفعاليات الرياضية الكبرى مثل الألعاب الأوليمبية وكأس العالم لكرة القدم، تحديات صحية خطيرة للمنظمين والمشاركين على حد سواء....

Recurrence of bird flu catches Vietnam off guard

thanhniennews Thursday, February 9, 2012 4:00:00 PM CET | info [other]

Vietnamese people and health officials became lackadaisical in their approach to bird flu during the nearly two years with no reported human cases, experts said at a meeting in Hanoi Tuesday. According to a report on VnExpress , at the meeting experts pointed out that the country’s first two victims.......

Vigilance against bird flu stepped up

ekantipur Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:59:00 PM CET | info [other]

The authority has stepped up vigilance against the possible spread of bird flu at the borders and vulnerable areas....

Kokua Line: Number of dead birds rises as part of a natural cycle

HonululuAdvertiser Thursday, February 9, 2012 12:49:00 PM CET | info [other]

Question: I live in a condo and found a fourth bird that has died on our premises. Can you provide the number to call when you find dead birds to test for bird flu?...

Bird flu hits poultry research

deccanherald Wednesday, February 8, 2012 7:23:00 PM CET | info [other]

The recent bird flu in Odisha seems have taken its toll on poultry research at the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT). Following the massive culling exercise launched across poultries in the state, researchers at OUAT said a breed of "coloured" hens developed after 16 years of toil have completely disappeared....

Bird Flu: Poultry ban in Sunsari

ekantipur Wednesday, February 8, 2012 6:15:00 PM CET | info [other]

Authorities on Wednesday said bird flu virus was not detected in the dead chickens in Satherjhora-8, around 15 km south-west of the two bird flu outbreak sites....

Bird flu: Details of deadly H5N1 will inevitably leak, says bioterrorism expert

dailymail Wednesday, February 8, 2012 12:50:00 PM CET | info [other]

Professor Paul Keim (pictured), chairman of the U.S National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity says there's no way of stopping details leaking out....

Officials wait for lab to confirm West Java bird flu death

JakartaPost Wednesday, February 8, 2012 11:19:00 AM CET | info [other]

The West Java government says it will wait for a second test to confirm a preliminary determination that a man died of bird flu in Bandung on Tuesday. The man, identified as 37-year-old newspaper ......

HA NOI: Bird flu outbreak threatens Vietnam

asianewsnet Wednesday, February 8, 2012 7:21:00 AM CET | info [other]

Vietnam's Department of Animal Health has warned that there is a high risk of a large-scale outbreak of without drastic preventive measures in the near future. Bird flu has been reported in four communes in three provinces of Quang Tri, Thanh Hoa and Soc Trang over the past month, affecting nearly.......

A suspected bird flu patient dies in Bandung

JakartaPost Wednesday, February 8, 2012 6:03:00 AM CET | info [other]

After being isolated for more than 30 hours, a 37-year-old paperboy, SA, suspected of being infected with bird flu died on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the isolation room of Hasan Sadikin Hospital in ......

SUNSARI: 500 fowls die in east Nepal

asianewsnet Wednesday, February 8, 2012 4:15:00 AM CET | info [other]

Over 500 chickens have died in the past two days in Satherjhora-8, around 15 km southwest of the two bird flu outbreak sites in Sunsari in east Nepal , according to a government official. "Samples of the dead chickens have been sent to the Regional Laboratory, Biratnagar, for tests....

500 fowls die in another Sunsari area

ekantipur Wednesday, February 8, 2012 3:40:00 AM CET | info [other]

Over 500 chickens have died in the past two days in Satherjhora-8, around 15 km south-west of the two bird flu outbreak sites in Sunsari....

Flu hits fowls; 2,000 culled in Sunsari

gorkhapatra Tuesday, February 7, 2012 3:32:00 AM CET | info [other]

Inaruwa, Feb. 6 Nearly 2,000 bird flu infected chickens were culled at Pathivara Poultry Farm in Khanar Village Development Committee of Sunsari district Monday. A rapid response squad of eight members led by Dr. Bodhraj Acharya, mobilized from the Regional Livestock Directorate Office, culled all.......

Bird flu recurs in 3rd province in Vietnam this year

thanhniennews Monday, February 6, 2012 5:21:00 PM CET | info [other]

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....

Thousands of chickens culled in new Nepal bird flu outbreak

AHN Monday, February 6, 2012 4:02:00 PM CET | info [other]

Government officials in Nepal have confirmed a fresh outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in eastern Nepal and sounded a health alert across the country. Some 2,000 chickens have died in the district in the past months. About 200 birds were culled Monday morning, according to a regional veterinary official....

Authorities cull chickens in infected poultry farms

ekantipur Monday, February 6, 2012 1:10:00 PM CET | info

The authorities culled hundreds of chickens in the bird flu affected poultry farms in eastern Nepal on Monday....

Authorities slaughter chickens at infected poultry farms

ekantipur Monday, February 6, 2012 7:09:00 AM CET | info

The government authorities slaughtered chickens at the bird flu infected poultry farms on Monday....

Vietnam Reports 2nd Bird Flu Death in a a Month

kcna Monday, February 6, 2012 6:13:00 AM CET | info [other]

Pyongyang, February 5 (KCNA) -- A Vietnamese official on Thursday confirmed the country's second human death from bird flu in less than a month. Test results confirm that a 26-year-old woman died of the disease on Jan. 28, said Truong Hoai Phong, director of the provincial health department....

SUNSARI: Bird flu confirmed in eastern Nepal

asianewsnet Monday, February 6, 2012 4:22:00 AM CET | info [other]

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....

Briefs

scmp Monday, February 6, 2012 12:23:00 AM CET | info [other]

Gunmen shot dead two paramilitary troops as they escorted Buddhist monks on their morning alms route in Thailand's restive deep south yesterday....

Bird flu confirmed in Ilam as well

ekantipur Sunday, February 5, 2012 1:03:00 PM CET | info

ILAM, FEB 05 - Bird flu has been confirmed in Phakphok VDC-2 of Ilam district. An emergency meeting of the district-level bird flu disease control committee held on Sunday confirmed the avian influenza virus in Phakphok. Dr. Kumar Singh Khatri of the District Livestock Office, Ilam, said the samples.......

Nepal in poultry cull after bird flu found

news_com_au Sunday, February 5, 2012 9:57:00 AM CET | info [other]

HEALTH workers to cull thousands of chickens following the discovery of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Himalayan country....

Nepal in mass poultry cull after bird flu found

focus-news-en Sunday, February 5, 2012 9:24:00 AM CET | info [other]

Kathmandu. 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, AFP reports. "We sent samples for investigation to London after chickens started to die of a.......

Bird flu traces found in Nepal

irishsun Sunday, February 5, 2012 9:21:00 AM CET | info [other]

As around 8,000 chickens have died of bird flu , or H5N1 virus in the Nepal's Sunsari district in last few days, more traces of the virus have been found in the region, Xinhua reported....

Grippe aviaire : des poulets abattus au Népal

Europe1 Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:56:00 AM CET | info [en] [other]

Le Népal va abattre des milliers de poulets après la découverte de plusieurs foyers de grippe aviaire dans le sud-est du pays himalayen, ont indiqué dimanche les services vétérinaires locaux.Des analyses réalisées à Londres ont révélé des foyers à Khanar et Ithari, dans le district de Sunsari, ainsi.......