Edmondson accuses 13 poultry companies of polluting the Illinois River watershed with excessive amounts of poultry waste. The poultry industry also wants a jury selected from outside the federal court's district. District Judge Gregory Frizzell denied the poultry industry's requests to dismiss the case on procedural grounds. federal judge has sided with the state of Oklahoma on several legal challenges brought by Tyson Foods and others in the poultry industry. Local Weather Dick Faurot's...

School kids are helping keep chickens disease-free in Mozambique, and the organizer of the program says it could help other African countries in the battle against bird flu. The children are trained on how to use eye-droppers to give the vaccine to the chickens. Heifer said it decided to use village schoolchildren because of the challenges of past vaccination programs and a shortage of qualified veterinary workers in rural Africa. Geneti Debia, the organization's program officer for...

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Americans love to eat their chicken -- on a per-capita basis, Americans will consume about 86 pounds of chicken this year. The survey found: - 39 percent of respondents said they would stop eating chicken if the virus was found in chickens in the U. farms for American consumers to cut back on chicken consumption. If people stopped eating chicken, it would take about five months, after being reassured that no infected chicken got into the food supply, for consumers to return, Hallman said....

The reason I am directing this to you my boy, is because more than anyone else, history shows, that more than half of the victims of bird flu in the stricken countries, are children like you. As birds and pigeons and chicken are very much a part of our lives, and children like you like to catch and hold them in your hands, keep away from sick or dying birds and fowls. And so there is an urgent need to teach you and your playmates, the tips on how to protect yourself from bird flu. Just...