South Africa has reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, on two poultry farms in the ...

Without protocol reforms, mass vaccinations of the national flock will be unlikely. Astral Foods became the first broiler ...

Animal diseases are increasingly jumping across species barriers, with outbreaks of bird flu in mammals more than doubling in ...

JSE-listed poultry producer Astral Foods has been given official approval to begin vaccinating its broiler breeding stock ...

New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

New bird flu outbreaks have also struck major egg-laying operations in Indiana and Georgia, ... The top egg-exporting countries globally in 2023 were: Netherlands: $610.1 million (20.5% of global ...

A 3km (1.9 miles) protection zone and 10km (6.2 miles) surveillance zone were in place around each of the infected premises, ...

Masaio Ishizuka, a senior epidemiologist at the Sao Paulo University, said evidence suggests migratory birds have now ...

Following a prolonged but ultimately successful application process, South Africa’s largest poultry company has become the ...

It is the seventh case of the year and is part of an overall rise in H5N1 infections in Cambodia since late 2023. The patient ...

The UK has faced repeated bird flu outbreaks since late 2021 ... They want secondary legislation under the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 implemented quickly to help protect ...

The department of agriculture’s recent decision to temporarily allow the United States to impose and lift bans on its poultry ...