Iowa egg, turkey farms to lose 5 million birds to bird flu
Bird flu has infected two more farms in Iowa, forcing the killing of 5.3 million hens and 88,000 turkeys, officials said Friday.
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WWF report says online wildlife trade on rise in Myanmar
A report by the World Wildlife Fund shows illegal purchases of wildlife online are growing in Myanmar in a threat both to public health and to endangered species.
Ecology
Mar 31, 2022
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Iowa to kill 1.5M more hens and turkeys because of bird flu
Iowa agriculture officials announced two more bird flu outbreaks in commercial flocks on Tuesday that will require the killing of more than 1.5 million hens and turkeys.
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Mar 29, 2022
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Bird flu case found in southern Wisconsin chicken flock
The bird flu has been confirmed in a commercial chicken operation in Wisconsin, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday.
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Mar 14, 2022
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Bird flu confirmed in northwest Iowa commercial turkey flock
Officials announced Monday that they have identified bird flu in a commercial flock of 50,000 turkeys in northwest Iowa, the state's second case of a virus that has been identified in multiple U.S. states.
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Mar 7, 2022
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NASA finds each state has its own climatic threshold for flu outbreaks
What triggers an outbreak of the influenza virus? A new study of the flu in the 48 contiguous U.S. states, using data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on NASA's Aqua satellite, has found that the answer is closely ...
Environment
Mar 4, 2022
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Federal agency: Bird flu detected in backyard Michigan flock
A strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in Michigan in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds in Kalamazoo County, federal authorities said Thursday.
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Feb 24, 2022
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US farms on alert as several cases of bird flu found
The US Department of Agriculture said Monday it had detected bird flu in two more farms after a first case came to light last week, putting the industry on guard.
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Feb 15, 2022
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Bird flu outbreak claims over 500,000 chickens in Burkina Faso
At least half a million chickens have been either killed by a bird flu outbreak in Burkina Faso or culled to prevent the virus spreading, the West African country announced Saturday.
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Jan 16, 2022
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Mexico says pig die-off due to salmonella, pneumonia
Mexican authorities breathed a sigh of relief Friday when experts determined that a die-off of pigs in December at a local slaughterhouse was due to salmonella and Pasteurellosis, a commonly occurring infection, and not African ...
Ecology
Jan 15, 2022
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