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  Human-to-human transmission of bird flu rare, no need to panic: Randeep Guleria

  India | July 21, 2021 15:25 IST

  A 12-year-old boy from Haryana, who was infected with the H5N1 virus, recently died at AIIMS, Delhi.

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  India reports first bird flu death as 12-year-old boy dies at AIIMS

  India | July 20, 2021 23:09 IST

  India on Tuesday reported its first bird flu death in the country for this year after a 12-year-old boy died at Delhi's All India Insitute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), news agency ANI reported.   

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  Iraq detects bird flu cases in Diyala province

  World | June 27, 2021 14:54 IST

  The new cases were detected in the small poultry farm on June 24 in a village near the provincial capital Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, Mahmoud Farhan al-Shammari, head of the veterinary hospital in Diyala said 

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  China reports human case of H10N3 bird flu, a possible first

  World | June 01, 2021 16:41 IST

  The 41-year-old man in Jiangsu province, northwest of Shanghai, was hospitalized April 28 and is in stable condition, the National Health Commission said on its website.

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  China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu

  World | June 01, 2021 14:02 IST

  H10N3 is a low pathogenic or relatively less severe strain of the virus in poultry and the risk of it spreading on a large scale is very low. There are many different strains of avian influenza in China and some sporadically infect people, generally those working with poultr

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  Bird flu detected at poultry farm in Punjab's Ludhiana

  India | May 08, 2021 20:44 IST

  Samples from a poultry farm in Ludhiana tested positive for bird flu, prompting the district authorities to form a committee for a culling exercise and containment operations. 

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  Protein Day 2021: Food items to replace eggs, chicken with the spread of bird flu

  Food | February 26, 2021 6:02 IST

  Our country has been hit by Bird Flu and with the rapid rise in cases, many people have decided to steer clear of eating eggs, poultry, and other forms of bird meat. Today as the world commemorates Protein Day. We bring to you some options which you can try replacing with eggs and chicken.

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  7 workers at Russia's poultry plant diagnosed with H5N8 bird flu; cases reported to WHO

  World | February 21, 2021 7:43 IST

  Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East and North Africa in recent months but only in poultry.

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  65 poultry birds found dead in Maharashtra's Jalgaon

  India | February 17, 2021 7:04 IST

  So far 7,12,172 poultry birds (including 5,78,360 birds from Navapur of Nandurbar district), 26,03,728 eggs and 72,974 kg of poultry feed have been destroyed from the infected zone, according to the government.

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  Fresh bird flu case reported at Delhi Zoo

  India | February 10, 2021 6:55 IST

  In the light of the bird flu outbreak, seven serological samples of droppings of birds and environments collected by Delhi's Animal Husbandry Department from four different points of the Zoo was sent to NIHSAD in Bhopal, have tested positive for the bird flu.

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  Bird flu confirms in J&K's Udhampur

  News | February 02, 2021 11:29 IST

  Bird flu confirmed in a village near Dhandal panchayat in JandK's Udhampur. The samples of few birds including peacock tested positive for Avian Influenza.

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  10 states confirm bird flu outbreak in poultry

  India | January 31, 2021 8:26 IST

  In Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur, the outbreak of the avian influenza has been confirmed in a domestic fowl. Besides, Himachal's Hamirpur district confirmed the bird flu in crows and in Bihar's West Champaran district the disease was found in a peacock

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  Bird flu scare: 3 peacocks, 2 peahens found dead in Maharashtra's Beed

  India | January 23, 2021 14:13 IST

  The samples of these birds, which were found dead on Friday, have been sent for testing to check if they died due to avian flu, they said.

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  Punjab reports first bird flu case as samples taken from dead goose test positive

  India | January 20, 2021 13:45 IST

  The samples were then sent to the Bhopal-based Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases testing after the NRDDL found it to be a suspected case of bird flu, the officials said.

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  Bird flu: Red Fort shut for public till January 26 after sample of dead crow tests positive

  India | January 19, 2021 19:11 IST

  Around 15 crows were found dead in the premises of Red Fort on January 10. A sample from a dead bird was sent to a Jalandhar-based laboratory for testing, Rakesh Singh, the director of the Delhi government's animal husbandry department, said.

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  Bird flu: 983 more birds die in Maharashtra, state death toll soars to 5,151

  India | January 17, 2021 8:29 IST

  The samples from Mumbai, Ghodbander (Thane district) and Dapoli for crows and herons and samples of poultry farm from Muramba have been found positive for (H5N1 strain) and samples of crows from Beed district have been found positive for H5N8 strain.

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  Consumption of well-cooked chicken safe: Centre asks states to rethink poultry sale ban

  India | January 17, 2021 8:07 IST

  The ministry said that the ban has adversely affected poultry and egg markets and thereby poultry and maize farmers, who are already affected by the COVID 19 pandemic lockdown.

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  Owl found dead in Delhi zoo tests positive for bird flu

  India | January 16, 2021 17:39 IST

  A dead owl in the Delhi zoo has been found to have been infected with bird flu, officials said on Saturday. "The zoo witnessed the death of a brown fish owl in its captivity.Its cloacal, tracheal and ocular swabs were sent to the animal husbandry unit of the Delhi government for serological examination," zoo Director Ramesh Pandey said.

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  Delhi: Kejriwal government relieves teachers from bird flu duties at border points

  India | January 15, 2021 11:22 IST

  The Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi has announced to relieve teachers from field duties to check illegal transportation of poultry into the national capital in view of the avian influenza (bird flu).  

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  BMC issues guidelines to prevent bird flu outbreak after confirmed cases in Mumbai

  News | January 14, 2021 18:39 IST

  Mumbai's civic body, the BMC issued a set of guidelines in light of samples of two crows from Mumbai testing positive for bird flu. The BMC has asked citizens to be vigilant and report any bird deaths by contacting its helpline at 1916.