The Pigeon Express
China recorded its first human infection with the H3N8 strain of bird flu, but the risk of its spread among people is low, the health authority said. The variant was found in a four-year-old boy from the central province of Henan province who showed fever and other symptoms on April 5, the National Health Commission […]
A person living in the south-west of England has caught bird flu, UK officials have confirmed. Cases like this are extremely rare and the individual probably became infected from very close contact with a sick or dead bird. Experts say there is no evidence of onward spread and all close contacts of the person are […]
A bird flu outbreak in Israel has killed at least 5,200 migratory cranes and forced farmers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chickens. Authorities are saying that this is the deadliest wildlife disaster in the nation’s history. Uri Naveh, a senior scientist at the Israel Parks and Nature Authority, said the situation is not yet […]
Mass culling of birds have been ordered in India after an avian flu outbreak was detected in several states. Cases of bird flu have been reported in capital New Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat. New Delhi has closed the Ghazipur wholesale poultry market, the biggest in the […]
Poland is culling over 900,000 hens due to an avian influenza outbreak discovered on one single farm this week, state news agency PAP reported. The flu outbreak hit a farm in the village of Wroniawy, western part of Poland. “It is a farm of 930,000 laying hens. … A canal runs behind the farm, there […]