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India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

...eat market dips. Hence farmers find it cheaper to slaughter the infected animals rather than goin for a vaccination programme." India has a policy of not destroying infected cattle and hence has chosen the vaccination option. The vaccine is a liquid preparation which can be monovalent (against a singlevirus ...

SARS research confirms link to animals

...20 wild animal traders and three of 15 workers who slaughter the animals had antibodies to the virus. Only 5 percent of the vegetable traders in the same market had the viral antibodies. None of those tested, however, reported symptoms of SARS in the past six months. Ban on some animals lifted The study was c...

Pig Bacterium (Streptococcus suis) Kills 24 In China

...Health Ministry is urging people not to process or slaughter infected animals in an effort to contain the spread. (Source: The New Scientist)...

Bird Flu Likely To Reduce World Energy Demand

...adly H5N1 strain of bird flu has so far led to the slaughter of millions of birds in Asia and has killed more than 60 people in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia...

Bird Flu Alarm In Indonesia

...er provinces since October, killing or forcing the slaughter of more than a million birds. In southern Tien Giang province, a man who had been admitted to hospital after complaining of a high fever was transferred to an isolation ward. But he left - saying he needed to buy personal items - and never returned...

Avian flu scare in Malawi too!!

...cks across Asia since 2003, killing or forcing the slaughter of more than 160 000 million birds. It has also killed at least 71 people. The biggest fear is that this does not mutate into a deadly strain that could pass on from human to human. ...

Mental health largely affected by shift in eating patterns.

.... “The research revealed that chickens reach their slaughter weight twice as fast as they did 30 years ago, increasing their fat content by a fifth from two per cent to 22 per cent. The report found there has been a 34 per cent decline in vegetable consumption and a 59 per cent drop in fish intake in the last ...

Bird Flu Reported In Northern Iraq

...the villages bordering Turkey and sent in teams to slaughter fowl in certain areas. Roads into the mountainous Rania area, the site of the first flu death, have been blocked. The area comprises some 50 villages, and it is a home to 400,000 people. Edited (IANS)...

Bird flu raises debate in EU for compensation for farmers

...des for compensation for farmers who are forced to slaughter poultry in the event of an animal disease outbreak, but does not cover loss of income due to poor sales. Meanwhile, an initiative for immediate "preventive vaccination" against bird flu seems to have divided member states trying to find out how to ...

Bird Flu in Azerbaijan Infects Humans

...rd flu. Azerbaijani authorities had ordered the slaughter of half a million birds. The virus has infected 175 people in seven countries and killed 96 people....

Massive Culling Of Poultry Forces Farm Owner To Commit Suicide

... the eldest of Shaktinath's sons. 'He decided to slaughter the affected chicks immediately and buried them. But the villagers were not convinced. They egged him on to kill more. Later officials intervened, and finally 550 chickens had to be culled in three phases,' said Sandhya Rani, his wife. Shaktinath h...

Bird Flu Not The Cause For Mysterious Bird Deaths

... an outbreak in neighbouring India resulted in the slaughter of half a million chickens. Chicken sales in Sri Lanka that had dropped around 20 percent since February are increasing now, according to the Poultry Farmers Association. Meanwhile in India, various poultry associations around all the states are off...

Good news: there is no threat of bird flu confirms US

...es, mostly in Asia. It's also killed or forced the slaughter of more than 200 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other domestic fowl in Asia, Europe and Africa. He also said, "One migratory bird does not a pandemic make. U.S. poultry farmers -- like their colleagues in Europe -- keep their birds isolated fro...

Pakistan Scared By Fresh Bird Flu Case

...arm there Wednesday night. "Yes, we have ordered slaughter of over 16,000 chickens", a food ministry spokesman said. He said the initiative was taken to prevent a fourth outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus in the country. "The area has been sealed off with posters and placards saying 'Restricted Area'." ...

Britain Slaughters Chickens After Dead Birds Tested Positive

The British government has ordered the slaughter of some 35,000 chickens at a farm in the south-eas... Netherlands led the Dutch government to order the slaughter of more than 30 million birds in 2003. Britain's ministry for environment, food and rural affairs ...

Antibacterial Products Ensure Food Safety and Health

....84 slaughtered for food use. ? U.S. food animal slaughter facilities apply sanitation or decontamination tre...ered to animals prior to milk or egg collection or slaughter of the animal for human consumption. Withdrawal times are designed to ensure that no unsafe concentr...

Egypt Prepares for a Bird Flu Outbreak

...ontained. Al-Jabali warned against inappropriate slaughter of birds and advised those concerned to take all necessary preventive measures in this. Egypt reported the last human case of H5N1 last May and out of the 14 human cases of avian influenza which have been reported among Egyptians since mid-March, si...

South Korea Plans To Destroy Cats And Dogs To Prevent Bird Flu

...after confirming the outbreak. They had planned to slaughter a total of 236,000 poultry, six million eggs, and unspecified number of other animals including pigs, dogs and cats in the area by Thursday, the ministry said. Though, Slaughtering cats and dogs near an area infected with bird flu would be highly u...

Rift Valley Fever Takes a Toll on 23 Lives

...of infection. He also said that anybody wishing to slaughter an animal should first seek permission from the veterinary department , to be sure the animal is free of the virus. SA...

Act Now To Cleanse Highly Polluted River Hindon, Says Study

...hose producing paper and textiles, dairy units and slaughter houses. "The Hindon no longer serves human domestic uses as it is clearly too polluted," says the study. "The river is now only used for the watering and washing of livestock. "Use of the river for disposal of untreated human sewage is a primary ca...

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