The disease killed 43 chickens and 44 ducks raised by a household in the province's Thong Nong district on June 11, the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said, noting that specimens from the affected poultry have been tested positive to bird flu virus strain H5N1. Bird flu hits one more Vietnamese locality. The disease killed 43 chickens and 44 ducks raised by a household in the province's Thong Nong district on June 11, the Department of...

Rabbit and poultry exhibits will return to the poultry barn on the south side of the fairgrounds for the 2007 fair. After floor seat tickets are distributed to the sponsor and in concert promotion giveaways, Roseberry said there will be 100 floor seat tickets left for sale to the general public at $30 each. In other business, the board approved an agreement with Peavey Grain for ground storage of grain this fall on the fairgrounds. I think everybody is fine with that, Roseberry said about...

By recreating an extinct virus that killed as many as 50 million people, scientists race to defeat avian flu before it evolves into a deadlier form. Three vials of saline solution, each about the size of a ballpoint pen cap, held the genes of the virus responsible for the Spanish Flu of 1918--the deadliest influenza pandemic ever to hit mankind. Then, 79 years later, another strain of avian flu jumped straight from birds to humans. By inserting the genes into human kidney cells, Tumpey...

adults have heard about avian flu, and have talked about it, but don't know much about it, according to a survey of 1,200 Americans. A majority of Americans are aware of the presence of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in people, birds, and poultry globally, but many are unaware that there have been no cases in humans or animals in the United States, according to the survey by the Food Policy Institute at the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. A majority of Americans...

THE dream of cheap, easy-to-store, needle-free vaccines is closer to reality after Japanese researchers created a strain of rice that protects against cholera. Mucosal infections are caused by pathogens that invade and infect victims through the mucosa, the wet cellular surface of the mouth, nose or genito-urinary tract. In trials with mice, the rice vaccine provided a "first line of defence", directly at mucosal sites, as well as producing systemic immunity. He said several groups...