Tag: avian influenza

• Friday, November 25th 2022 - 08:46 UTC

  Peru declares avian influenza health alert

  

  Peruvian health authorities have launched a health alert for 180 days after three cases of the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza were detected in pelicans, it was announced Thursday in Lima.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2022 - 08:03 UTC

  Falklands Senior Veterinary Officer recommendations on Avian Influenza

  

  As we have learnt Avian Influenza is the current bird/poultry disease to look out for. Just to recap: Avian Influenza is a viral disease of birds (very seldom also humans), that is mainly transmitted via direct contact and/or droppings of infected birds. The symptoms can range from flu type symptoms (sneezing, respiratory distress) and decrease in the number of eggs laid, all the way to sudden death.

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:28 UTC

  Falklands strict protocol in case of Avian influenza reaching the Islands

  

  The Falkland Islands government and Falklands Conservation have announced a series of precautionary measures in the event of an outbreak of Avian influenza that has spread in European countries.

• Wednesday, April 27th 2022 - 07:54 UTC

  Bird flu reported in Chinese boy – first human case of H3N8

  

  Chinese authorities Tuesday reported the first case in humans of H3N8 Avian influenza, although health specialists explained the risk of a large-scale epidemic was low.

• Friday, January 7th 2022 - 20:49 UTC

  First fatal victim of bird flu reported in UK

  

  British health authorities Friday reported what seems to be the first fatal case in humans of the H5N1 variant of bird flu, which rarely infects humans, but when it does, it has a mortality rate of about 60%.

• Wednesday, January 6th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  France to cull 600,000 ducks to contain an avian influenza virus

  

  France is to cull around 600,000 poultry birds as it tries to contain an avian influenza virus that is spreading among duck flocks in the southwest of the country, the farm ministry said on Tuesday.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Deadly avian influenza rapidly spreading and ravaging Europe

  

  A highly contagious and deadly form of avian influenza is spreading rapidly in Europe, putting the poultry industry on alert with previous outbreaks in mind that saw tens of millions of birds culled and significant economic losses.

• Saturday, January 7th 2017 - 08:35 UTC

  Chile reports avian influenza at a turkey farm: all birds to be culled

  

  Chile has detected avian influenza H7 at a turkey production plant run by poultry producer Agrosuper in the country's central Valparaiso region. All affected birds (350,000) will be culled. No data regarding N type were given.

• Wednesday, May 7th 2014 - 06:21 UTC

  Live avian influenza virus discovered in Antarctica Adélie penguins

  

  Researchers have found a new type of avian influenza virus in a group of Adélie penguins (pygoscelies adeliae) from Antarctica. Aeron Hurt, PhD, a senior research scientist at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne, Australia, said that this is the first time that a distinct, live flu virus has been found in these birds.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 14:39 UTC

  Chinese scientists confirm new bird flu strain jumped from chickens to humans

  

  Chinese scientists have confirmed for the first time that a new strain of bird flu that has killed 23 people in China has been transmitted to humans from chickens. In a study published online in the Lancet medical journal, the scientists echoed previous statements from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chinese officials that there is as yet no evidence of human-to-human transmission of this virus.