The chain of infection involved a 10-year-old boy who likely caught the virus from his 37-year-old aunt who had been exposed to dead poultry and chicken feces. Longini says that if bird flu develops enough to cause sustained human-to-human contact, it could spread worldwide faster before enough vaccine could be made available. Experts at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research center in Seattle used statistical analysis and a computerized disease-transmission model to show the disease spread...

More detailed information from registered producers will be gathered in private databases, such as those kept by state agencies, breed associations or commodity groups. With technology still in the infancy stage, it s ridiculous to try and implement that kind of program where the people paying the cost of it are not getting any kind of benefit. This entails not only hogs, cattle, sheep and poultry, but also more non-traditional species, such as elk, bison and horses, among others. A year...

I think that this is a good indication that agriculture will always have a place in the community even though more and more people are not living on farms these days, said Paul. Every year, the Berlin fair celebrates the best of the harvest season combined with a variety of garden and creative entries from people near and far. While there is not any market livestock at this fair, there are a lot of rabbits and poultry competing for prizes and will be housed in the side building by the...

BERLIN German authorities started culling tens of thousands of birds at two farms in the Bavarian towns of Trumling and Hofing as a protective measure over fears of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. Frank Pfeffer, a spokesman for the state office in Schwandorf, said 205,000 birds will be culled in a drive that is expected to run into next week. close What are tags? A tag is a keyword or descriptive term supplied by our editorial staff used to associate related articles with one another....

THOUSANDS of camels have died because of "toxic fodder" over the past month in the Kingdom, and breeders, some of whom have lost herds worth millions of dollars, don't know where to turn. It has since been revealed that the fodder contained significant amounts of a toxic fungus, aspergillus clavatus, as well as aluminum and a medicine used to treat poultry diseases. The local press has described the camel deaths as a "national tragedy" since the "contamination" claimed its first victims in...