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Risk of human spread of H5N8 bird flu deemed low

Seven people infected but asymptomatic, WHO says

By GFM Network News, Stephanie Nebehay February 26, 2021

Geneva | Reuters — The risk of human-to-human spread of the H5N8 strain of bird flu appears low after it was identified for the first time worldwide in farm workers in Russia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. A separate influenza strain, H1N1, that emerged from pigs and spread rapidly worldwide among humans

Livestock

Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises pandemic risk

By GFM Network News, Kate Kelland January 26, 2017

London | Reuters — The global spread of bird flu and the number of viral strains currently circulating and causing infections have reached unprecedented levels, raising the risk of a potential human outbreak, according to disease experts. Multiple outbreaks have been reported in poultry farms and wild flocks across Europe, Africa and Asia in the

News, Poultry

Wild birds have higher resistance to flu virus

With bird flu ravaging barns in the U.S. and knocking at Canada’s door,  it might be time to reconsider how poultry are raised

By Shannon VanRaes June 1, 2015

For years, poultry producers have been breeding something in their barns other than birds. Avian influenza. Long present in wild bird populations, the low-pathogen version of the virus has entered barns, remaining there until a series of mutations turned into something else — something deadly. “We have been playing with fire,” said Earl Brown, a

Livestock, Markets

H5N8 avian flu found in Indiana

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter May 11, 2015

Reuters — A strain of avian flu that until now had been found only in the western U.S. has cropped up in Indiana, bringing the total number of states affected by the virulent outbreak to 15, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday. The eastward spread of any strain of the highly contagious H5 virus

American wigeons at Quebec’s Iles-de-Contrecoeur National Wildlife Area. (Environment Canada photo by Benoit Audet)

Livestock

H5N8-positive wild duck found in B.C.

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 4, 2015

Ongoing surveillance of Canada’s wild birds has turned up the country’s first-ever case of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian flu, in a duck carcass at a British Columbia bird sanctuary. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Friday reported the case to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), noting such a detection in wild birds “should

Livestock

Canada expands blocks on U.S. poultry, eggs

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 28, 2015

Canada’s avian flu-related ban on imports of poultry, birds and eggs from Washington and Oregon has been expanded to include the same products from California and Idaho. The ban was expanded after outbreaks of avian flu in poultry in the past week in both states, including a backyard flock of chickens in Idaho infected with

Livestock

California turkey farm quarantined after H5N8 detected

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters January 26, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– A California turkey farm has been quarantined after confirmation of the first case of an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza strain in the Pacific Northwest, and in a commercial flock, the U.S. government said. The news on Saturday came just weeks after China banned U.S. poultry after an

Livestock

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from U.S. Northwest

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 9, 2015

Birds, eggs and poultry products from Washington and Oregon are being kept out of Canada after findings of high-path avian flu in a pair of backyard flocks in those states. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Dec. 24 reported highly pathogenic (“high-path”) H5N2 avian flu in a backyard free-range flock of geese, turkeys, chickens, ducks

Livestock

Britain confirms H5N8 in ducks on farm in north

By Costas Pitas, GFM Network News November 18, 2014

London | Reuters — Bird flu on a duck farm in northern England is the highly contagious H5N8 strain, the same form of the virus already discovered in Germany and the Netherlands, Britain’s farm ministry confirmed on Tuesday. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said that the risk to humans was minimal,

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Tag Archives H5N8

Risk of human spread of H5N8 bird flu deemed low

Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises pandemic risk

Wild birds have higher resistance to flu virus

H5N8 avian flu found in Indiana

H5N8-positive wild duck found in B.C.

Canada expands blocks on U.S. poultry, eggs

California turkey farm quarantined after H5N8 detected

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from U.S. Northwest

Britain confirms H5N8 in ducks on farm in north

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