bird flu

News Hour: China reported 24 human fatalities from H7N9 bird flu in April, the national health authority said on Friday, compared with 47 deaths in March. It also reported 81 cases of human infection from H7N9...

News Hour: South Korea will downgrade its bird flu alert level by one notch from the highest level starting from Wednesday as no new cases have been reported for about two weeks, the country’s agriculture ministry...

News Hour: China reported 47 human fatalities from H7N9 bird flu in March, the national health authority said on Wednesday, compared with 61 deaths in February, reports Reuters. It also reported 96 cases of human infection...

News Hour: China reported six new cases of H7N9 bird flu including one death in Hunan after live poultry markets in the province were shuttered last month. The infections were reported in the last week of...

News Hour: Saudi Arabia has temporarily banned imports of live birds, hatching eggs and chicks from Tennessee after a form of bird flu that is highly lethal for poultry was found in the U.S. state, the...

News Hour: Japan deployed hundreds of soldiers to help cull more than 280,000 chickens on Friday, officials said as they try to contain further outbreaks of a highly contagious strain of avian flu. The latest slaughter...

News Hour: China confirmed an outbreak of H7N9 bird flu at a poultry farm in Hunan province in the southern part of the country, according to a Ministry of Agriculture statement on Friday. The outbreak in...

News Hour: Austrian poultry will be allowed outdoors as of Saturday as the threat from bird flu is fading, the country’s health ministry said, lifting a restriction put in place more than two months ago. Austria...

News Hour: Alabama has found bird flu at three poultry facilities in the northern part of the state, its agriculture department said on Tuesday, near where two cases were detected recently in Tennessee, reports Reuters. Alabama...

News Hour: China confirmed a bird flu outbreak, the country’s sixth case since last October, at a duck farm in central Hubei province, according to a Ministry of Agriculture statement on Tuesday. The outbreak in Daye,...