LAHORE: The poultry industry has tremendous potential of making value-addition, which is evident from successful operation of world-renowned food chains in Pakistan. He said the new hatchery, which by all means, was a milestone in the development of poultry industry in Pakistan, which would help bridge protein gap between supply and demand. He said there was considerable scope for the export of eggs for breeder stock and substantial foreign exchange could be earned from the export of...

Luckily, the annual search for a vaccine against seasonal flu is helping scientists as they seek immunization against its much deadlier cousin, H5N1 avian influenza. According to experts, avian flu vaccines are essentially made in the same way as the regular flu vaccine. According to Levandowski, there are vaccine products at all different levels of development for both seasonal and avian flu strains. That's much lower than the regular seasonal flu vaccine, making it unclear as to how...

EDITORIAL Positive step in bird-flu battle The government plans to devote billions to a vital strategy to stave off and deal with a potential pandemic A few eyebrows were raised when the Social Development and Human Security Ministry said last week it was seeking a budget of Bt9 billion to put a comprehensive strategy in place to ensure Thailand is better prepared for a bird-flu outbreak. EDITORIAL Positive step in bird-flu battle The government plans to devote billions to a vital strategy...

Bhutan is wary of bird flu attack as nearly 5,000 poultry birds died of the disease in a poultry farm near Darjeeling in West Bengal. Bhutan may enforce a ban on import of chicken meat and eggs from India if reports of death of nearly 5,000 poultry birds due to bird flu in a poultry farm in West Bengal are proved true, officials have said. Bhutan may ban import of Indian poultry products. Without confirming, we do not take any action," he said. The department has already sent a veterinary...

Third in a series of reports on deadling with the threat from avian influenza. Yet people often do not follow the rules about preventing bird flu. What happens if you follow all these rules and someone in your family gets sick? How will you know if it is bird flu? People who could be infected with the bird flu virus will have difficulty breathing. Most bird flu cases in human beings have resulted from people touching infected farm birds, such as chickens, ducks or turkeys. The government...

The fowl had not been vaccinated against bird flu, it said. Animal health workers have slaughtered the remaining 2,500 ducks in the farms, disinfected the area and banned poultry transport from the infected area. The Animal Health Department said nearly half of Vietnam's 64 provinces have completed the first of a two-phase vaccination campaign which targets up to 90 percent of the country's poultry stock this year. The virus emerged again among ducks and chickens in the south late last...

Besides the H5N1 vaccine approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in April, "a number of the most advanced candidate vaccines against H5N1 avian influenza might be registered within six months to two years," the WHO said in a question-and-answer bulletin on pandemic flu vaccines. Besides the H5N1 vaccine approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in April, "a number of the most advanced candidate vaccines against H5N1 avian influenza might be registered within six months to two...

Ghanaian authorities are alarmed by the growing pace of the avian flu s pace in the country, especially Tema Municipality where three outbreaks were recorded within a week. Most Ghanaians fear that the virus might spread to large poultry farms in Tema Municipality, leading to scarcity of poultry products. The head of Ghana s avian flu surveillance team, Darlington Owusu, confirmed the destruction of thousands of crates of eggs. The West African country aims to eradicate bird flu but fear...

Many have only started to recover after losing their flock to bird flu and now they must sit and wait to see which rivers crest first. Poultry farmers are growing frustrated with what little they can do to prepare. He says the unpredictability of the rivers are frustrating for farmers who are trying to organize a way out for their chickens, but many cannot be moved, and if and when the water rises, many flocks will be lost. News1130 Meteorologist Russ Lacate agrees with flood forecasters...