This is a disease that is becoming increasingly important to free range and barn egg producers and a solution is desperately needed. Join over 70,000 readers and stay up-to-date with whats happening in the Farming industry. Red mite continues to be one of the most costly problems in the free range egg sector. The BEMB Trust is the largest independent research funding body for the egg production industry. Thelatest theory is thatbare soil may have a role in re-infecting flocks. Another...

Fahad Balghunayim, with the ministry, said Saudi Arabian officials are trying to contain the bird flu outbreak to just two farms located 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Riyadh. These two new farms join a third confirmed case of the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. Authorities are suspecting that the outbreak was caused by migratory birds. syndication, rewriting or broadcast is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AHN. But an investigation is ongoing to determine the...

Shares of Coley, which specializes in making vaccine technology and drugs to treat cancer, allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases, more than doubled, adding $4. Organon is a pharmaceutical, animal health and vaccine development company. Fein, who reiterated his rating of "market perform" on Coley, said he was worried about the company's pipeline, but now thinks Pfizer, as a much larger entity, can manage the developmental risks. Saturday, November 17, 2007 Schering acquisition gets FTC...

Deadly Strain of Bird Flu Confirmed in British Turkeys LONDON, UK, November 13, 2007 (ENS) - British animal health officials have today confirmed that avian influenza detected in turkeys on a farm near Diss on the Norfolk-Suffolk border is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the virus. Deadly Strain of Bird Flu Confirmed in British Turkeys LONDON, UK, November 13, 2007 (ENS) - British animal health officials have today confirmed that avian influenza detected in turkeys on a farm near Diss...

Africa's governments, its industry and its research institutions are well aware of the potential that agricultural biotechnology holds if applied in other ways and to indigenous crops. The genes incorporated into the crops include those that confer insect, fungal, viral and bacterial resistance, protein quality improvements, herbicide tolerance, and salt and drought resistance. The sweet potato trials met some setbacks because it is believed that the construct for the virus resistance was...

Be the first to comment on this article JEDDAH, 19 November 2007 -- A recent decision by several Gulf countries to ban the import of poultry products from Saudi Arabia may cause huge losses to Saudi farmers and exporters, said Riza Al-Naghmoush, a poultry farmer in the Eastern Province. Be the first to comment on this article JEDDAH, 19 November 2007 -- A recent decision by several Gulf countries to ban the import of poultry products from Saudi Arabia may cause huge losses to Saudi farmers...

Haunted by the knowledge that influenza killed 50 million people in 1918, scientists and public health officials continue to seek ways to head off the next great pandemic. Others are looking for the best way to construct a vaccine, or antiviral drugs, to prime our immune systems to grapple with the more dangerous virus that may evolve from the avian flu. And it's never been done for any influenza virus, despite the substantial death tolls from the annual flu - a complacency that has begun...

Bird flu was thought to only infect birds until the first human cases came to light in 1997 when the H5N1 strain infected 18 people in Hong Kong, killing six. More people were infected in China in 2003, followed by outbreaks among humans and poultry flocks around Asia over the next few years. All the territory's poultry - over one million birds - were culled, but the virus was not eradicated. In 2005, the virus spread across Asia as far as the Ukraine, borne either by migrating wild birds...

Fred Landeg, DEFRA's acting chief veterinary officer, told BBC News today that initial genetic sequence data suggest that the outbreak strain is closely related to H5N1 viruses found recently in the Czech Republic and Germany, "which does suggest a possible wild bird source. Authorities have declared a 3-kilometer protection zone and a 10-kilometer surveillance zone around the farm, plus a much wider restriction zone. Farmers in the zone are required to isolate poultry from wild birds, and...