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[unbossed.com] Bird Flu Guidelines: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has issued an an alert on Avian Influenza. While it is directed mainly to poultry farms, there may be a few of you out there who will find it of interest to keep tabs on what NIOSH is advising and whether you think the advice is adequate or for your own safety, paranoia, or .

 [thepoultrysite - Industry News] Poultry Farms Registration Launched: Animal Husbandry Commissioner Dr R H Usmani said that according to an estimate there were about 25,800 poultry farms producing large scale as well as small scale poultry products like meat, eggs and poultry breeding.

 [newstin - Bird Flu] Pakistan: Poultry farm sealed in Malir Town: Via The News: Poultry farm sealed in Malir Town. Excerpt: A poultry farm in the Malir area was sealed on Sunday following confirmation of presence of H5N1 strain of bird flu, officials said.

 [The Spicy Cauldron] Got chickens? We know where you live”¦: Large intensive farm concerns such as Bernard Matthews get major outbreaks of bird flu, in part I am convinced due to the cramped conditions the animals have to endure, plus the fact that the birds are imported from areas that have had previous outbreaks, and the government dishes up compensation from the pockets of the people. Home farmers, however, can expect no hand-outs in the event that our chickens and ducks and whatever are taken away.

 [petra blog] Avian Flu: Do you want the Good News or the Bad News? Part II: The current avian flu bug is infecting and spreading throughout the poultry industry in Asia. Why so often in Asia? Simply putand here is a key to understanding how to deal with avian flu - poultry farms are absolutely filthy. ...

[The Dawn Blog] Pandemic in Pakistan: The danger is that through repeated cross-contamination between birds and humans, the H5N1 strain may evolve into a highly contagious virus capable of being transmitted between humans. If this were in fact to occur, the densely packed city of Karachi would be especially susceptible.

 [Bifurcated Carrots] Bird Flu in India: It’s outrageous that large scale operations which are the source of the problem get massive government subsidies to cover their losses, as what happened with European poultry farmers during the last large outbreak in Europe, while small flock holders all over the world don’t get a penny and face legislation restricting their ability to continue raising birds.

[southasianews.com] Fresh bird flu outbreak in Bangladesh: Personnel from the livestock department have culled 58,130 chickens and destroyed 226,813 eggs from a poultry farm in Mymensingh district, about 120 km north of capital Dhaka. Bird flu infection was detected at the farm Feb 23, officials said.

[The Flu News Blog] Extortion threat: Shopkeepers want a police post: Times of India - Of special concern are zoonoses (diseases that travel from animals to humans) such as bird flu, incidences of which have risen worldwide. Researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the US-based University of Georgia and Columbia

[Pharmacy online blog] Bird Flu Breaks Out In Tibet And Claims Another Life In China: Meanwhile in Viet Nam, the Ministry of Health confirmed last week, that a 40 year old man from Gia Loc district, Hai Duong province, died of H5N1 bird flu on 13th February after being taken into hospital 5 days earlier. He developed symptoms on the 2nd of February and it has been confirmed that he had come into contact with sick and dead domestic birds before falling ill.

[The Flu News Blog] Poultry cull imposed to stop bird flu outbreak in south Russia: RIA Novosti - ROSTOV-ON-DON, December 12 (RIA Novosti) - About 500,000 chickens will be culled at a poultry farm in southern Russia, where 35,000 birds have died from bird flu since late November, a source in the local emergencies service said on Wednesday. The

[southasianews.com] More fowls culled as bird flu rages on in Bangladesh: An official at the bird flu control room told Xinhua that with the fresh culling of chickens, ducks, pigeons and pet birds, the total number of culled birds shot up to 968,731 since the avian influenza broke out in March last year.

 [The grapefruit hazard is not crestor for other statins.] The bird flu virus found at a poultry farm in Suffolk: Bush says financial markets strong, solid. But he came away from the Olympic super heavyweight lifting finals in awe of Iran s Hossein Rezazadeh, who proved once .

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