Compensation will be paid to poultry farmers in the country who lost their birds to Avian Influenza in Nigeria.
The Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation said the money used to fund the farmers would be from the World Bank’s 50 million Dollars Avian influenza Emergency Programme.
A local newspaper in Vietnam reported that the country is actively preparing human forces, health equipment and medicines to combat a potential outbreak of birdflu.
The country has prepared 1 million tablets of anti-bird flu medicine Tamiflu, 1,000 respirators, 100 tons of disinfection chemical Chloramin B, and hundreds of thousands of gloves and masks.
Early last week, [...]
Ongoing testing across Australia’s most susceptible regions have found no evidence of the new lethal strain of bird flu in wildlife.
Dr John Curran, from the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service, says continuing trapping and testing of wild birds across northern Australia has so far failed to isolate any live influenza viruses.
“But by the same token we’re [...]
Vehicles From Sudan entering Uganda will have to go through a disinfecting process in Ugandas latest attempt to stop the spread of BirdFlu.
The process wil include disinfecting the car using a large disinfection wheel well while passengers will be required to disinfect their shoes.
Hassan el-Bushra, regional adviser for communicable diseases surveillance at the World Health Organisation, recently advised the press that a healthy 39 year old woman died from the H5N1 virus in Egypt.
The woman, 39-year-old Hanan Aboul Magd of the Nile Delta province of Gharbiya, has been in hospital since Oct. 4 and has been treated with [...]
Biosecurity New Zealand spoke to members of the press today saying after completing its first survey of commercial broiler and layer farms throughout the country they have found no trace of birdflu.
The study was the first phase of an ongoing surveillance programme. MAF will continue to conduct further surveillance to meet its originally stated [...]