China Rushes to Halt Bird Flu Among Ducks
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BEIJING, Sept. 18 -- China scrambled to respond Tuesday to an outbreak of bird flu among ducks in the southern city of Guangzhou. But as officials sought to reassure the public, there were signs that China was reluctant to release details about a possible health threat.
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The Chinese Government says tests have found that its pigs are clear of a highly virulent strain of bird flu. The statement comes several days after a Chinese scientist said cases of the H5N1 strain of the
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TOKYO, Dec. 22 -- Japan reported its first case of bird flu in a human on Wednesday -- a man who got the disease from birds. Bird flu has swept through farms across Asia this year, forcing officials to cull more than 100 million birds.
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China has detected an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry in Tibet, a government Web site said on Tuesday.
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China has confirmed an outbreak of the  H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks in an outlying district of the  southern metropolis of Guangzhou in Guangdong province, the  Agriculture Ministry said.
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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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Authorities in eastern India battling the country's worst ever outbreak of bird flu said Monday they needed to step up the slaughter of chickens and ducks to beat a spread in the virus.
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China has confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks in an outlying district of the southern metropolis of Guangzhou in Guangdong province, the Agriculture Ministry said.
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A Malaysian state near the border with Thailand faces a quarantine to stop the spread of potentially deadly bird flu, which has spread inexorably since first being discovered in this country a month ago, a news report said
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Bird flu has spread to ducks and chickens near Vietnam's border with China, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.
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Health and veterinary workers in Bangladesh have culled nearly 25,000 fowls after bird flu was confirmed at three poultry farms in the country, officials said on Thursday.
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A series of measures are being taken to prevent animal epidemics since a bird flu outbreak in the country in the spring. Local governments have reinforced the monitoring of bird flu.
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A laboratory in China says it has discovered a deadly strain of the bird flu in pigs, raising concern among scientists that the virus may be closer to changing into a form that is more easily transmittable to humans.
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Wild ducks in Pennsylvania have tested positive for bird flu, but not the deadly Asian strain that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 141 people worldwide, the Agriculture Department said Saturday.
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The H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in another poultry farm in northern Bangladesh, forcing authorities to cull nearly 300 chickens, officials said on Wednesday.
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24/08/2004 - Authorities in China are trying to calm fears over the spread of the deadly avian influenza strain H5N1 to pigs by stating that recent tests carried out on pig farms in the country have shown that the animals are now clear of the disease.
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South Korea plans to kill cats and dogs to try to prevent the spread of bird flu after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus at a chicken farm last week, officials said Monday.