US egg prices soar to yearly high amid bird flu, holiday demand
Egg prices across the United States have surged to their highest levels of the year, driven by widespread bird flu outbreaks and increased demand during the holiday season.
Egg prices across the United States have surged to their highest levels of the year, driven by widespread bird flu outbreaks and increased demand during the holiday season.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed a human infection with H5N1 bird flu in a child in California
No fresh case of human infections of avian influenza among people who had come in close contact with the two bird flu-infected children in West Bengal was reported so far in the state, claimed the health department on Thursday.
Bird flu scare came back again in state after two cases of human infections of the avian influenza caused by two variants H5N1 and H9N2 respectively were reported.
The UK has declared that the country is now free from highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza is very contagious among birds and can cause severe illness and even death, especially among poultry.
The outbreaks resulted in the killing of hundreds of thousands of chickens and caused an egg shortage in Israel.
It was decided to immediately close down all poultry farms in a 10 sq km radius of the said locality, from which bird flu was reported.
No bird mortality was reported from the entire Pong Dam Lake Wildlife Sanctuary for the eighth consecutive day
A committee comprising officials of the animal husbandry and veterinary departments of the Delhi government is also synchronising its efforts with the animal rights activists to deal with the prevailing bird flu situation effectively.
