Bulgaria's veterinary service confirmed Friday an outbreak of Newcastle disease in poultry in the northwest of the country, the farming ministry said in a statement. Bulgaria's veterinary service confirmed Friday an outbreak of Newcastle disease in poultry in the northwest of the country, the farming ministry said in a statement. A veterinary technician administers the Newcastle disease vaccine to a hen in the village of Petrovec, Macedonia, pictured here in 2005. Local veterinary...

Washington - 8/15/2007 - Researchers may have developed a vaccine to protect people from an influenza pandemic even before it strikes. While it has long been said there is no way to vaccinate people against an influenza strain until it evolves, a team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Maryland and the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta said they may have found a shortcut. New vaccine may prevent bird flu spread to humans. While it has long been...

At the request of state Attorney General Thurbert Baker and Environmental Protection Division Director Carol Couch, Jackson County Superior Court Judge David Motes ordered Friday that the Agri-Cycle treatment plant should stop accepting new waste for a month. At the request of state Attorney General Thurbert Baker and Environmental Protection Division Director Carol Couch, Jackson County Superior Court Judge David Motes ordered Friday that the Agri-Cycle treatment plant should stop...

She was the first woman to die of avian influenza in Bali since the disease was first identified among poultry on the island in 2003. lived about 300 yards from chickens diagnosed with the H5N1 strain. The views expressed in the articles are not necessarily those of earthtimes.org and we accept no responsibility for the views or opinions expressed in the articles either direct or indirect. At least 103 cases of the disease have been confirmed in humans in Indonesia, with 82 of the victims...

Northern Command headquarters here this week to discuss their plans and preparedness for a possible influenza pandemic. With that experience, I think pandemic influenza preparedness has been really unique in the way people are actually proactively trying to deal with these issues before it happens as opposed to reactively. It is also an excellent opportunity to meet face to face the people that you have been working with across the phone line or maybe an e-mail. The command conducts...

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The nutrient application limits were imposed by a judge as a temporary measure in a settlement agreement that ended a lawsuit involving six poultry companies, the city of Tulsa and the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority. TULSA The city and its utility authority want a federal court to revise rules and further limit how much poultry waste can be spread on land in two watersheds in northeastern Oklahoma. According to court papers filed in federal court Friday by the city and the utility...

A novel vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu could mean that far more people will be protected against the deadly disease in case of a worldwide pandemic, a study released yesterday showed. The new drug which combines a standard vaccine with a patented oil-in-water emulsion produced up to six times as many antibodies capable of neutralising the bird flu virus as the same dose without the emulsion. In clinical trials, the new drug not only required fewer scarce antigens, it also triggered a...

India's huge gene resources for food and agriculture has got limited to about 12 varieties of food, which provide 80 per cent of food energy, because of changing lifestyles and taste and nutrition value of country's food basket. The National Bio-Diversity Action Plan says 41 per cent of India's forest cover is at different levels of degradation and the country is making limited use of is vast gene pool in agriculture and livestock, thereby creating a risk of food security. The Environment...