As such, there are no chances of transmission of the viral disease from affected chickens to human beings, provided, of course, the food is properly cooked. Sajjad said that consumption of properly boiled eggs and chickens cooked at high temperature did not spread the avian influenza. She said that even in Saudi Arabia the sale of live chickens or birds would probably be banned by August 2007 and only frozen chicken meat will then be available. Karachi Technical experts and doctors claim...

QUICKSHARES Or GO Tue, 24 Apr 2007 You are in: Business >Features FEATURE Praise for secretive bird flu action Charlotte McDonald-Gibson Tue, 24 Apr 2007 Down a dirt road in a northeastern Yangon suburb, a large barn stands empty but for white feathers and piles of chicken excrement that hint at its former occupants. QUICKSHARES Or GO Tue, 24 Apr 2007 You are in: Business >Features FEATURE Praise for secretive bird flu action Charlotte McDonald-Gibson Tue, 24 Apr 2007 Down a dirt road in a...

government said on Monday 38 poultry farms in Indiana were given contaminated feed in early February containing melamine, with some of the chickens likely to have entered the food supply. At this time, the investigation indicates that approximately 30 broiler poultry farms and eight breeder poultry farms in Indiana received contaminated feed in early February and fed it to poultry within days of receiving it. Because the poultry being held have been fed adulterated products, USDA cannot...

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The Hindu News Update Service. As of now we have initiated efforts for its which would take about three years and then these genes would be transferred into developing disease resistant chicken which may again take couple of years," a senior scientist of UP-based Central Avian Research Institute told PTI. As of now we have initiated efforts for its which would take about three years and then these genes would be transferred into developing disease resistant chicken which may again take...

The European Union's advisory panel on new drugs has recommended approval for Novartis' new cell based seasonal flu vaccine Optaflu which suggests full approval is likely to go ahead in the next two or three months. According to a press release from the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), which reviews applications for all 27 countries in the EU as well as Iceland and Norway, has given a "positive opinion" for the Swiss...