Tag: bird flu

• Friday, January 7th 2022 - 20:49 UTC

  First fatal victim of bird flu reported in UK

  

  British health authorities Friday reported what seems to be the first fatal case in humans of the H5N1 variant of bird flu, which rarely infects humans, but when it does, it has a mortality rate of about 60%.

• Monday, November 30th 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  Christmas turkeys culled in England because of bird flu H5N8

  

  All 10,500 turkeys will be culled at a farm in North Yorkshire, in England after bird flu was confirmed at the site. The H5N8 strain of avian influenza was found at a turkey fattening premises near Northallerton on Saturday.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 09:12 UTC

  Highly contagious strain of bird flu forces Netherlands to cull tens of thousands of chickens

  

  Dutch authorities have culled some 190,000 chickens after a highly contagious strain of bird flu broke out in at least two poultry farms, the agriculture ministry said on Sunday.

• Tuesday, February 11th 2020 - 07:40 UTC

  Germany reports outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus

  

  Germany has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus in a backyard in the southwestern part of the country, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday.

• Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:20 UTC

  China reports outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in poultry farm with 7.850 chickens

  

  China reported an outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 bird flu at a farm in Shaoyang city of the southern province of Hunan, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Sunday.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 14:16 UTC

  Avian flu in the US: third state declares state of emergency

  

  State of Iowa Governor Terry Branstad declared a state of emergency due to a rapidly expanding avian flu outbreak, saying the entire state was at risk from the spread of the disease.

• Wednesday, November 19th 2014 - 04:18 UTC

  Bird flu highly contagious H5N8 strain in England, Netherlands and Germany

  

  Bird flu on a duck farm in northern England is the highly contagious H5N8 strain, the same form of the virus already discovered in Germany and the Netherlands, Britain's farm ministry confirmed on Tuesday.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 14:39 UTC

  Chinese scientists confirm new bird flu strain jumped from chickens to humans

  

  Chinese scientists have confirmed for the first time that a new strain of bird flu that has killed 23 people in China has been transmitted to humans from chickens. In a study published online in the Lancet medical journal, the scientists echoed previous statements from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chinese officials that there is as yet no evidence of human-to-human transmission of this virus.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2013 - 23:40 UTC

  New bird flu strain in China “one of the most lethal” warns WHO

  

  A new bird flu strain that has killed 22 people in China is “one of the most lethal” of its kind and transmits more easily to humans than another strain that has killed hundreds since 2003, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Wednesday.

• Saturday, April 20th 2013 - 06:00 UTC

  New strain of bird flu has capacity to mutate rapidly; could become transmissible among humans

  

  The new strain of bird flu that has killed 17 people in China has been circulating widely “under the radar” and has acquired significant genetic diversity that makes it more of a threat, warned scientists.