The risk to humans is low, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization. As a precaution, people are ...

This disease is caused by the influenza A virus.

So far, 7,20,515 poultry birds, including 5,86,668 from Navapur in Nandurbar, have been culled, and 26,44,177 eggs as well as 73,004 kilogr...

He said that only 0.5 percent of the farms have been found to be infected with the avian influenza after results came from the Regional Dis...

“The government has delegated all its requisite powers on district collectors under Prevention And Control of Infectious and Contagious Dis...

“We have deployed central teams to visit the affected states of Kerala, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh for monitoring and for epidemiological...

The Secretary in the Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying held a meeting with the states to understand the status of the outbreak of a...

In a statement, the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying said that other states have been asked to keep a vigil on an...

The other states have also been asked to keep a vigil on any unusual mortality amongst birds and to report immediately to take necessary me...

The biosecurity guidelines were last issued in 2013. The norms have been revised in light of latest developments and to incorporate some pr...

CM Oommen Chandy said the government has increased the compensation amount to Rs 100 for two-month-old ducklings and Rs 200 to ones older t...

Shaken by the swine flu pandemic, the Maharashtra government has decided to revisit an unfinished task.

China has reported its first bird flu outbreak among poultry this year, with thousands of fowl destroyed in the nation's far northwest to p...

Mopping drive is underway in West Bengal to complete the culling operations in the bird flu-affected districts of the state on Saturday, wi...

As the bird flu continued to spread in West Bengal, a power-point presentation has been prepared by the district administration to create a...

Tripura government has sounded a birdflu alert and banned entry of poultry and poultry feed from outside the state and neighbouring Banglad...

An animal rights group has written to the animal husbandry department saying steps should be taken to improve conditions at poultry farms t...