Deadly Strain of Bird Flu Confirmed in British Turkeys LONDON, UK, November 13, 2007 (ENS) - British animal health officials have today confirmed that avian influenza detected in turkeys on a farm near Diss on the Norfolk-Suffolk border is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the virus. Deadly Strain of Bird Flu Confirmed in British Turkeys LONDON, UK, November 13, 2007 (ENS) - British animal health officials have today confirmed that avian influenza detected in turkeys on a farm near Diss...

Africa's governments, its industry and its research institutions are well aware of the potential that agricultural biotechnology holds if applied in other ways and to indigenous crops. The genes incorporated into the crops include those that confer insect, fungal, viral and bacterial resistance, protein quality improvements, herbicide tolerance, and salt and drought resistance. The sweet potato trials met some setbacks because it is believed that the construct for the virus resistance was...

Be the first to comment on this article JEDDAH, 19 November 2007 -- A recent decision by several Gulf countries to ban the import of poultry products from Saudi Arabia may cause huge losses to Saudi farmers and exporters, said Riza Al-Naghmoush, a poultry farmer in the Eastern Province. Be the first to comment on this article JEDDAH, 19 November 2007 -- A recent decision by several Gulf countries to ban the import of poultry products from Saudi Arabia may cause huge losses to Saudi farmers...

Haunted by the knowledge that influenza killed 50 million people in 1918, scientists and public health officials continue to seek ways to head off the next great pandemic. Others are looking for the best way to construct a vaccine, or antiviral drugs, to prime our immune systems to grapple with the more dangerous virus that may evolve from the avian flu. And it's never been done for any influenza virus, despite the substantial death tolls from the annual flu - a complacency that has begun...

Bird flu was thought to only infect birds until the first human cases came to light in 1997 when the H5N1 strain infected 18 people in Hong Kong, killing six. More people were infected in China in 2003, followed by outbreaks among humans and poultry flocks around Asia over the next few years. All the territory's poultry - over one million birds - were culled, but the virus was not eradicated. In 2005, the virus spread across Asia as far as the Ukraine, borne either by migrating wild birds...