USDA said last week it is equipped to handle a potential bird-flu outbreak, stressing that milder forms of the virus periodically hit the United States. "There is no reason for an overreaction" if a less virulent form of bird flu emerges during the coming bird-flu season, said Ron DeHaven, administrator...
By Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
The U.S. will see the deadly H5N1 bird flu arrive, USDA Secretary Mike Johanns predicted late last week, saying it would be "almost biblical to think we would be protected." Eradication, however, would keep the food supply safe, Johanns s The U.S. will see...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. AP -- Tyson Foods Inc. has begun killing and burying the carcasses of 15,000 hens from a flock that tested positive for exposure to a strain of the bird flu in northwest Arkansas, state officials said Tuesday. Tyson said preliminary tests on the flock...
M2 PRESSWIRE-3 January 2008-Kansas State University: K-State's Veterinary Diagnostic Lab Is Kansas' First Line of Defense Against Bird FluC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03012008 MANHATTAN -- If the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza ever comes to Kansas, diagnosticians at...
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — -->Turkeys from a farm in Shenandoah County, Virginia farm carried antibodies indicating possible past exposure to a mild form of H5N1 avian influenza virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA, has confirmed. Virginia's agriculture department had announced July 9 that samples collected during routine...
Byline: Gregory Lopes, THE WASHINGTON TIMES A ban on the sale of poultry in Virginia took effect yesterday after state officials discovered antibodies to the avian influenza, a deadly virus also known as bird flu. However, the birds were discovered with antibodies...
About 25,000 turkeys were destroyed in Pendleton County because of "low pathogenically avian influenza H5N2," according to officials. "This came about due to regular surveillance performance done on every flock before it leaves the farm to be slaughtered," said Buddy Davidson, communications officer in the state Department of Agriculture. This...
Byline: Nate Hoekstra Daily Herald Staff Writer SPRINGFIELD - An agreement between the state and the U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing Illinois poultry breeders access to grant money that can be used to test birds for avian flu, or H5N1. The...
M2 PRESSWIRE-4 January 2007-RNCOS: US to allow Imports of Chinese Processed ChickenC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04012007 Richard Raymond - Food Safety Undersecretary with U.S. Agriculture Department - said on 14 December 2006 that he had assured China that U.S. would be...
Byline: Gene Mueller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES In a nationwide effort to monitor a dangerous strain of avian flu, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is collecting waterfowl samples. It's a smart call by wildlife officials who want to stay on top of...
Federal officials say the discovery of a bird flu virus in two wild swans in southeastern Michigan poses no threat to public health or the poultry industry. Tests results released on Monday found H5 and N1 subtypes in the birds, said Ron DeHaven, administrator of the U.S. Department...
WASHINGTON -- Scientists have discovered possible bird flu in two wild swans on the shore of Lake Erie -- but it does not appear to be the much-feared Asian strain that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 138 people elsewhere in the world. It will take...
Byline: Joyce Howard Price, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Two wild mute swans in Michigan have tested positive for a low-level bird flu not the highly infectious strain that has ravaged birds in Asia, Africa and Europe and has killed 139 persons, federal officials said...
No trace of avian influenza has been found in Utah this year, but Wednesday morning, those who would respond to a pandemic crisis gathered in Salt Lake City to play a game of "what if?" -- while a conference in St. George also assessed the potential consequences of a bird-flu...
UND is competing for a major federal germ research center that could bring up to 300 high-paying jobs to the Grand Forks area and boost the university's life sciences programs. Called the National Bio and Agro-defense Facility, it would be the first U.S. tab designed to detect and find cures...
The spring migration of waterfowl and shore birds is usually a welcome harbinger in the United States of warm weather and outdoor living. This spring, however, U.S. wildlife professionals will be tracking bird migrations for a more ominous sign--that the highly pathogenic avian flu strain H5N1...
Leaders of three federal agencies on Monday said bird flu could reach the USA this year on the wings of migratory birds, but the appearance of the flu strain "will not constitute a reason for panic," Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said. "We are closely monitoring the...
The U.S. government, bracing for the possibility that migrating birds could carry a deadly strain of bird flu to North America, plans to test nearly eight times as many wild birds this year as have been tested in the past decade. Starting in April, samples from 75,000 to...
FRENCH FLU BAN. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service placed a temporary ban Feb. 25 on imported poultry and commercial shipments of live birds, hatching eggs, and unprocessed avian products from the French Department state of Ain. The ban is based...
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