Articles filed under Avian/Bird Flu
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US bird flu case puts chicken, turkey farms on high alert
Feb 15, 2022 6:11 PM - Farms that raise turkeys and chickens for meat and eggs are on high alert, fearing a repeat of a widespread bird flu outbreak in 2015 that killed 50 million birds across 15 states and cost the federal government nearly $1 billion
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Agencies: Avian flu found in birds at Indiana turkey farm
Feb 9, 2022 1:15 PM - Federal and state agencies say a strain of avian flu that can cause high mortality rates among birds has been confirmed at a commercial turkey farm in southern Indiana
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Thousands of cranes killed by bird flu in northern Israel
Dec 27, 2021 2:10 PM - Israeli authorities say bird flu has killed thousands of migratory cranes and forced farms to kill over 500,000 chickens to contain the outbreak
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UK reports unprecedented jump in early season bird flu cases
Dec 9, 2021 8:02 AM - U.K. authorities are reporting an unprecedented jump in early season cases of avian flu in both domestic and wild birds
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China reports human case of H10N3 bird flu, a possible first
Jun 1, 2021 12:24 PM - The Chinese government says a 41-year-old man has contracted what might be the world's first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu, but that the risk of large-scale spread is low
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Chickens to be culled after bird flu found on Dutch farm
Oct 29, 2020 8:24 AM - The Dutch agriculture ministry says that more than 35,000 chickens are to be culled at a farm after a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu was discovered there
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Bird flu fears: Dutch farms ordered to keep poultry indoors
Oct 22, 2020 1:23 PM - The Dutch government is ordering poultry farms to keep their birds indoors after six wild swans were found recently dead and tests on two of the birds came back positive for a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu
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Industry scrambles to stop fatal bird flu in South Carolina
Apr 10, 2020 2:51 PM - An infectious and fatal strain of bird flu has been confirmed in a commercial turkey flock in northeast South Carolina, the first case of the more serious strain of the disease in the United States since it was reported in a Tennessee chicken flock in 2017
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Bird flu kills 25,000 turkeys in eastern Poland, sparks cull
Jan 2, 2020 7:27 AM - Authorities in eastern Poland say bird flu is responsible for the deaths of at least 25,000 turkeys in poultry farms near the country's borders with Ukraine and Belarus
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Bird flu hot spot: Scientists track virus in huge migration
Jun 28, 2018 1:57 PM - Migrating birds turn some Delaware Bay beaches into a mixing bowl for flu viruses, a bonanza for science
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