Zimbabwe: Marry Chiwenga - When Chickens Come Home to Roost
[New Zimbabwe] Mary Mubaiwa most definitely has the right go to her own preferred destination for medical reasons, be it China - as her estranged husband has - or anywhere else.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 8, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news

What to Know About the Bird Flu Outbreak
More than 15 million chickens and turkeys from infected commercial and backyard flocks in 19 states have been killed, officials said.
Source: NYT Health - April 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Neil Vigdor Tags: Avian Influenza Birds Agriculture and Farming Poultry Chickens Eggs Turkeys Source Type: news

Half a Million Chickens to Be Destroyed in Bird Flu Outbreak
A commercial chicken farm in Nebraska will destroy 570,000 broilers because a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza – better known as bird flu – was discovered in the flock, the Nebraska Department of Agriculture reported.
Source: WebMD Health - March 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bird flu detected in western Iowa backyard flock
Federal officials say bird flu has been detected in a backyard flock of chickens and ducks in western Iowa
Source: ABC News: Health - March 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Avian Flu Spread in the US Worries Poultry Industry
Though the risk to humans is low, scientists warn that outbreaks among farmed birds increase the potential for the virus to mutate and pose a threat to humans.
Source: NYT Health - February 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew Jacobs Tags: Agriculture and Farming Avian Influenza Birds Turkeys Viruses Chickens International Trade and World Market Agriculture Department Source Type: news

Carlisle Castle restores 15th-century carvings thought to be by prison guards
Carvings can be seen more clearly thanks to painstaking removal of sediment and water damageThere are carvings of dolphins, horses, boar, salmon, mermaids, a magnificently endowed leopard, George and the dragon, and a fox preaching to some chickens – a 500-year-old warning not to trust people in authority.The carvings, about 300 of them, atCarlisle Castle are the subject of a restoration project to save them from the elements and allow them to be seen more clearly than they have been for generations.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 30, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Mark Brown North of England correspondent Tags: Heritage Carlisle Culture North of England Art Art and design Archaeology Science UK news Source Type: news

Bird flu outbreak in Israel kills 5,000 cranes and sparks slaughter of half a million chickens
Environment minister calls death of migratory cranes from virus ‘the most serious damage to wildlife in the history of the country’ #birdfluoutbreak #slaughter #environmentminister
Source: Reuters: Health - December 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Africa: Swapping Probiotics for Antibiotics Could Be a Game Changer for Chickens and People
[The Conversation Africa] In 1928, microbiologist Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin was hailed as a scientific breakthrough. In the nearly 100 years since then, scientists have discovered numerous other antibiotics that have saved billions of lives.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 3, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic
At least eight types of bird flu, all of which can kill humans, are circulating around the world ’s factory farms – and they could be worse than Covid-19One day last December, 101,000 chickens at a gigantic farm near the city of Astrakhan in southern Russiastarted to collapse and die. Tests by the state research centre showed that a relatively new strain of lethal avian flu known as H5N8 was circulating, and within days 900,000 birds at the Vladimirskaya plant werehurriedly slaughtered to prevent an epidemic.Avian flu is the world ’s other ongoing pandemic and H5N8 is just one strain that has torn through thousands o...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 18, 2021 Category: Science Authors: John Vidal Tags: Global health Food Bird flu Coronavirus Farming Environment Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science Society World news Wildlife & drink industry Business China Asia Pacific Global development Source Type: news

Could gene editing chickens prevent future pandemics?
Rearing virus-resistant birds could benefit humans too, say scientists, and Covid may have made us more open to the controversial technologyDiseases such as avian flu trigger the culling of millions of birds each year. But that need not be the case for much longer.Vaccines are one preventive strategy employed in some countries, but they do not stop birds from being infected, getting mild versions of the disease and transmitting it to healthy chickens. In fact, this imperfect shield can make things worse, incentivising the virus to mutate to evade the vaccine.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 18, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Natalie Grover Tags: Gene editing Bird flu Environment Health Society Coronavirus Infectious diseases Medical research Science Chicken Food World news Animals Source Type: news

Namibia: Avoiding Tuberculosis in Cattle
[New Era] Tuberculosis (TB) can occur in many animals (cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, pigs, dogs, and wildlife such as lions, baboons and buffaloes), but this article focuses mainly on TB in cattle, which is termed bovine TB. Bovine TB is not only sometimes fatal, but also contagious, and it can spread to other livestock.
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - September 7, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Goats, chickens, birds rescued from Jersey City home where pile of dead animals were found
An official at the scene said the tenants could be charged with jail time and a $2,000 fine for each violation.
Source: Reuters: Health - August 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Backyard Chickens Spreads
For the second year in a row, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigation has linked an outbreak of salmonella to backyard poultry. ... Since the outbreak was first announced i...
Source: AARP.org News - June 27, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Indonesian officials give away live chickens to residents willing to get vaccinated
Authorities in one Indonesian town have started offering a new incentive to encourage elderly residents to get vaccinated against...
Source: Reuters: Health - June 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than modern fowl because they were seen as sacred, not food -- study shows
(University of Exeter) Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than their modern equivalents because they were seen as sacred -- not food -- archaeologists have found.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 7, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news

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