The Federal Government will from July 5 compensate Ebonyi poultry farmers affected by the December 2016 Avian Influenza attack on poultry farms in

JOHANNESBURG - Government has placed a general ban on the sale of live hens throughout the country in a bid to control an outbreak of highly contag

Scientists have shown in a lab how bird flu could change in three simple mutations and become capable of spreading from human to human.

2 Sisters Food Group’s parent company, Boparan Holdings, has reported a 39% fall in like-for-like operating profit to £13.1M in its third-quarter t

The Department of Agriculture has taken active steps to control the confirmed outbreak of the highly contagious avian flu in Mpumalanga, where abou

THE Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has placed a general ban on the sale of live hens across the country following an outbreak of

THE outbreak of threat of bird flu in South Africa must be tightly monitored, the Democratic Alliance’s Western Cape branch said earlier today.

JOHANNESBURG – The agriculture ministry is discouraging people from buying so-called ‘spent hens’ in Mpumalanga in order to avoid the further sprea

The Agriculture Ministry and other organisations say South Africans should not panic after an outbreak of avian influenza, otherwise known as bird

JOHANNESBURG - Farmers have been urged to be vigilant in checking whether their poultry is showing signs of the H5N8 virus.

South Africa reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu on a commercial broiler breeder farm in Mpumalanga province, the World Organis

TAIPEI, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan has confirmed new outbreaks of bird flu at two poultry farms and culled some 36,400 birds to prevent further inf

Two individual cases of bird flu have been reported in Mpumalanga and the Free State.

PARIS, June 22 (Reuters) - South Africa reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu on a commercial broiler breeder farm in Mpumalanga

China will begin vaccinating poultry next month against the H7N9 avian influenza virus which has claimed hundreds of lives and caused major damage

BIRD flu is back. The H7N9 virus has had its deadliest year since it emerged in 2013.

With researchers warning that mutations in the H7N9 bird flu virus could lead to a "pandemic," authorities in China have decided to begin

The Coordinating Director NAQS, Vincent Isiegbe disclosed yesterday, in Abuja, that in the era of increased trans-boundary diseases like armyworm,

Scientists have found that three mutations are needed [npr.org] to make the H7N9 strain of bird flu more virulent in humans: Public health official

The flu strain, known as H7N9, now mostly infects birds but it has infected at least 779 people in outbreaks in and around China, mainly related to

The Kaduna State government has disclosed that poultry farmers in the state lost more than 37,000 birds to Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) between Janua

Scientists have identified three mutations that, if they occurred at the same time in nature, could turn a strain of bird flu now circulating in Ch

he H7N9 bird flu virus has influenza scientists on edge, due to an unexpected surge of human infections — hundreds of cases — caused by the virus t

On Friday, June 2, 2017 the federal government warned Nigerians about the new outbreak of bird flu in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and seven