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Philippines reports first avian flu outbreak

By Enrico Dela Cruz, Manolo Serapio Jr. August 11, 2017

Manila | Reuters — The Philippines will cull 200,000 chickens, quails and ducks after confirming the country’s first outbreak of bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol said on Friday. The avian flu outbreak was detected in a farm in San Luis municipality in Pampanga province, north of the capital Manila, which later spread to five […] Read more

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WHO says bird flu outbreaks raise alarm

By Kate Kelland March 1, 2017

London | Reuters — The risk of sustained human-to-human transmission of H7N9 avian flu in China is low, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, but a surge in human cases there is worrying and requires constant monitoring. Outbreaks of H5 bird flu strains in poultry and wild birds across Europe, Africa and Asia are […] Read more

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Ontario duck farm catches low-path avian flu

By Alberta Farmer Staff July 7, 2016

All the birds on a commercial duck farm in southern Ontario’s Niagara region are about to be euthanized after some were confirmed with a less severe form of avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Thursday said the strain of avian influenza found in the birds on the farm is a low-pathogenic (“low-path”) […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

SW Ont. broiler farm quarantined with avian flu

By Alberta Farmer Staff April 19, 2015

A second poultry farm in southwestern Ontario’s Oxford County is now under federal quarantine with what tests show to be avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Saturday it had placed the farm — a broiler breeder chicken operation west of Ayr, Ont., south of Kitchener — under quarantine after preliminary tests Friday at […] Read more

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Philippines reports first avian flu outbreak

WHO says bird flu outbreaks raise alarm

Ontario duck farm catches low-path avian flu

SW Ont. broiler farm quarantined with avian flu

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