While the fatality count has slowly ticked higher, the victims' stories -- or what little we know of them -- have sometimes been overshadowed by broader concerns about food safety, bird migratory patterns and feared mutations that could make the virus easily transmissible between people, potentially sparking a global pandemic. But the details of their investigations offer glimpses into the lives of the victims -- who have been largely young, in close contact with poultry, and mostly from...

An agricultural engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas said he has found a way to burn poultry litter to heat poultry houses. An agricultural engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas said he has found a way to burn poultry litter to heat poultry houses. Tom Costello worked with Lynndale Systems inc., a furnace manufacturer in Harrison, to test a furnace prototype that uses a blend of poultry waste and bedding material as fuel to heat chicken houses. Costello s...

He said that since the first bird flu scare in the local market last February, followed by the Singapore ban on chicken imports from Selangor, the group has started to look for geographic diversification of its supply network. He also said KFCH had set up a farm-to-plate emergency response and communications plan covering all business units, including breeder farms, hatchery, contract farms, processing plants and restaurants. The new factory to start operating by mid next year will source...

While the public is unfamiliar with the newly released study, most people are all too well familiar with the root cause and the mental image associated with the bird that immediately springs to mind: disappointing palatine qualities, more commonly known in descriptive adjectives as dry, tough, hard and bland. While the public is unfamiliar with the newly released study, most people are all too well familiar with the root cause and the mental image associated with the bird that immediately...

A new book suggests the poultry industry is far from benign. Fortunately (given their huge numbers) chickens are not a source of global warming gases in the same way as ruminants - the so-called "farting cow" factor. There are now twice as many chickens in the world as humans, most of them kept for meat and eggs. Nothing paltry about chicken industry - New Zealand's source for food & wine news & recipes on Stuff. But their faeces is certainly becoming a problem, not least in the US, where...