Poultry ban could end this month
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SINGAPORE hopes to decide by the end of the month when the ban on poultry imports from Johor and Malacca will be lifted. This was revealed even as fresh cases of bird flu were found yesterday
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It's June, but I'm thinking of fall. And with good reason.  Last year's pheasant harvest was likely higher than in any year since the mid-1940s. The past winter was relatively mild, which should have meant fairly good carryover of birds.
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Science & environment: A European-wide ruling to increase wheat supply could have a 'devastating effect' on Britain's already threatened farmland birds, RSPB warns.
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China will vaccinate billions of domestic poultry over the next few months to guard against an outbreak of bird flu this spring, when the virus is at its most contagious, state media reported on Monday.
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Markets and exhibitions involving livestock, banned in Britain since an outbreak of the foot and mouth virus on August 3, will be allowed to resume from Monday, the agriculture ministry said.
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Thailand plans to ban families from raising fowl in open-air farms in an attempt to stop the spread of the avian influenza virus, the government said, without providing any details on how it will implement the ban.
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Poultry farmers around Europe were on guard Monday against the possible spread of bird flu across the North Sea from infected Britain, fearing the disease could be carried by wild birds. The Netherlands was the first country over the weekend to order restrictions on commercial poultry since the outbreak last week on a turkey farm in eastern England of the H5N1 strain of the virus, which can be deadly for humans.
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Vietnam may face fresh outbreaks of the  deadly H5N1 bird flu virus next month as poultry is transported  around the country ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in  February, the World Health Organization said.
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Britain gassed tens of thousands of turkeys and extended restrictions on the movement of poultry on Sunday to try to prevent the spread of deadly bird flu from a farm in eastern England.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Malaysia Correspondent Melissa Goh. KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia expects to resume export of poultry and eggs from two states to Singapore by the end of this month but only after meeting conditions set by the island.
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Russia and Japan banned British poultry imports as Britain pressed ahead with a cull of 160,000 turkeys after the nation's first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu in farmed poultry.
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Canada's cattle and beef industries, battered by the discovery of mad cow disease in 2003, would win new access to the important U.S. market by this spring under a plan Washington announced on Wednesday to relax a trade ban.
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Hong Kong authorities may ban the slaughtering of poultry by retailers in a bid to prevent a bird (avian) flu pandemic. The WHO has warned that the next global pandemic may come from a mutated bird flu virus.
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Ban on farm-to-farm movements in Norfolk and Suffolk after new case of bluetongue disease is found.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.  - The United States will end its  mad cow-inspired ban on Canadian cattle on March 7 despite  rising criticism from farm groups, Agriculture Secretary Ann  Veneman said on Sunday, adding that Japan and South Korea  should open their doors to U.S. beef.
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Vital research into avian flu, environmental pollution and food safety could be cut to save money, say scientists.
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Britain is facing poultry bans from Japan to Jersey after it finished slaughtering about 160,000 turkeys in the hope of containing its worst bird flu outbreak.