NEW DELHI: The animal husbandry department has ruled out bird flu as the cause of death of 2,350 chicken at a poultry farm in Matigara near Siliguri on Tuesday. The farm, where the deaths sparked a bird flu scare on Tuesday, has already been quarantined. Not taking any chances, especially because Matigara village is just 25 km from Bangladesh, which is reeling under an H5N1 bird flu outbreak having resulted in the culling of 132,000 chickens in 52 farms of 10 districts, two samples of the...

When the Egyptian government outlawed raising poultry on roofs and balconies in February of last year to curb bird flu, the Cairo teacher whisked his brood straight into his bedroom. Within a month the government ran out of vaccine and sent police to cull an estimated 15 million birds, or 80 percent of the country's poultry. People hid their poultry from the government's execution squads, contributing to the spread of the disease, according to the World Health Organization. Egypt, where...

When the Egyptian government outlawed raising poultry on roofs and balconies in February of last year to curb bird flu, he whisked his brood straight into his bedroom. Within a month the government ran out of vaccine and sent police to cull an estimated 15 million birds, or 80 percent of the country's poultry. People hid their poultry from the government's execution squads, contributing to the spread of the disease, according to the World Health Organization. What complicates matters is...

May 19, 2007- Indian veterinary department officials have reviewed the ban imposed on the import of poultry products and pigs from Burma through the border town of Moreh. Veterinary experts have also rushed to the remote hilly villages of Manipur to monitor illegal import of poultry products and pigs from Burma over the past five days. Reports reaching here said though Manipur, a northeastern state of India has banned import of poultry products and pork from Burma following an outbreak of...

Testing confirms that meat from poultry fed rations supplemented with pet food scraps containing melamine and related compounds is safe for human consumption. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will allow approximately 80,000 birds held on farms in Indiana to be released and approved for processing. Testing of meat from poultry exposed to the feed in question confirms that melamine does not accumulate in birds and is eliminated by the body quickly. The testing also reinforces the conclusions...