The deal with farmers was promoted by the EPA as an important step to enforcing clean air laws by working with the agriculture industry, which is helping pay for the study. Alabama's poultry industry produces more than 1 billion broilers and more than 1.6 billion eggs in a year, making it one of the top poultry states in the country and a nearly $3 billion-a-year business. It's not about odor; it's about materials such as ammonia, which is an ingredient in forming fine particulate matter...

A former government minister beat a longtime opposition politician in what was widely seen as Mauritania's first free presidential election, according to results announced Monday. Abdallahi's installation April 19 will mark the first time in the impoverished northwest African country's history that leadership will change hands as the result of an election. Indonesia will resume sending bird flu virus specimens to the World Health Organization immediately, the health minister said Tuesday,...

In early March, three wild birds and two head of poultry tested positive for the H5 bird flu virus out of 325 head of poultry and 20 wild birds tested in Fujian province. China's Ministry of Health has confirmed a 16-year-old boy has died from bird flu in eastern Anhui Province, bringing the number of people in the country who have been killed by the virus to 15. So far they have not shown symptoms of the disease, and there has been no reported outbreak of the disease among local fowl. The...

What makes people more miserable than a spring snowstorm? A lingering invasion of the flu and norovirus and the onset of chicken-pox season. As part of her duties, Bishop collects numbers each week of positive cases reported to the state lab, positive quick tests and cases clinically diagnosed by health-care providers. Although she hadn t completed her report Friday, Bishop said those providers surveyed by midday continued the trend of fewer flu cases. Most of those who followed advice to...

Mashiur expressed satisfaction over the government's readiness to face the challenges, adding that the whole poultry industry will also face up to the challenge. Cashing on Bangladesh's reputation for remaining free from the bird flu virus, a few entrepreneurs started entering some new poultry markets, which even include Europe, he added. Saleque, also a high official of Brac, said different microcredit providers injected about 20 percent credit to the industry while different government...