drug manufacturer Baxter Healthcare corp. will carry out clinical trials of a bird flu vaccine on Indonesians this July, the health minister said, adding that the country will initially stockpile 2 million doses. Human infection remains relatively sparse, but experts fear it could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, potentially sparking a pandemic that could kill millions worldwide. Baxter is now able to produce 3 million doses of the vaccine per week, she said, declining...

PIPP Cooperative is the outgrowth of efforts that began more than two and a half years ago when a number of poultry farmers began to be concerned about the future and structure of the poultry industry in Pennsylvania. A new poultry cooperative began operations recently with the delivery of 30,400 poults, or young turkeys, to the Shippensburg-area farm of James E. We are afraid that decisions might be made without our participation that could adversely affect the future of our farms,...

He admired the 20 to 25 percent duty exemption on industrial generators import and said that the same relief should be given to the poultry and dairy sectors. He said industrial workers had been made partners in profits and added that they would also be given an annual bonus of Rs 20,000. He said the benefits included up-gradation of railway employees, increase in salaries of the government employees and raise in pension of the retired government employees. Addressing a press conference at...

If that isn't a recipe for consumer-price inflation, what is? Smithfield Foods is living high on the hog, with improving meat sales leading the company to report soaring profit in its fourth quarter, but it needs to raise prices to keep up with escalating costs, especially for feed. Smithfield Profit Soars - Forbes.com E-Mail . Print . Comments . Request Reprints . E-Mail Newsletters . RSS. The results came within the 30-to-35-cent range the company forecast last week, but it fell below...

About 57% of Indonesia's avian flu patients had contact with dead or infected poultry, 29% lived near poultry farms where sick or dead poultry were reported, and 1% had contact with poultry feces, the commission said. Helens in northwestern England, in the wake of a recent low pathogenic H7N2 avian flu outbreak in Wales, showed that poultry there were infected with the same subtype. In other developments, English officials yesterday reported another outbreak of the low pathogenic H7N2...