Moreover, the sources said that no infections have been recorded in past ten days, and bird flu has "vanished" from farms in Wafra where it had been heavily detected. The sources also noted that infected farm owners would be compensated within the next ten days, before allowing the farms to resume operations, for losses incurred by the culling of their poultry and banning the sale of live chicken. All live chicken outlets will also reopen within the next two weeks, said informed official...

A week after the commissioner of the Union animal and husbandry ministry, Mr SK Banerjee visited North 24-Parganas, the district authorities have set up a six member team in each of these ten blocks to carry out inspection of the poultry in bordering villages of Basirhat I, Basirhat II, Hasnabad, Swarupnagar, Gaighata, Bongaon, Bagda, Baduria, Hingalgunge, blocks. A week after the commissioner of the Union animal and husbandry ministry, Mr SK Banerjee visited North 24-Parganas, the...

In recent years, this avian flu strain has also been passed on from infected chickens and birds to human beings, raising fears of a possible pandemic. Via two million each of colourful posters and pamphlets being distributed to 40,000 schools in Thailand, children as young as four or five years are taught simple and easy steps about avian flu and how to avoid catching the disease from dead or ill fowl. Efforts like these to reach young people and inform them about how to prevent the H5N1...

Printable Page Bangladesh, Cambodia battle new H5N1 outbreaks. Apr 16, 2007 (CIDRAP News) Bangladesh's livestock ministry said today that H5N1 avian influenza has spread to two more farms, and Cambodian officials have reported poultry outbreaks near where a 13-year-old girl recently died of the disease, according to news services. Apr 16, 2007 (CIDRAP News) Bangladesh's livestock ministry said today that H5N1 avian influenza has spread to two more farms, and Cambodian officials have...

The companies said they have collaborated over the past year on ways to combine Tyson's expertise in protein chemistry and production with ConocoPhillips' processing and marketing knowledge to introduce a renewable diesel fuel with lower carbon emissions than petroleum-based fuels. TimesDispatch.com . Project's aim is diesel from fat. The companies said they have collaborated over the past year on ways to combine Tyson's expertise in protein chemistry and production with ConocoPhillips'...

Today, with fisheries in much dire straits and a heightened awareness about global malnutrition, why are we turning more than one-third of our marine fish into powdered pig feed? One part of the answer is that fish meal is price competitive with soymeal and other grain feeds because the fish are caught in developing countries willing to take low prices for the fish. Today we catch 30 million tonnes of these small, wild fish and grind them up into fish meal and oil to feed chicken, fish,...