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(Eagle News)–The government has launched a task force to stop the spread of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus in the country, the Food and Drugs Administration said. According to the FDA, Task Force Alectryon shall focus on a streamlined evaluation of application of avian influenza drugs and vaccines that are “safe, efficacious, and of good quality..” In launching the task force, the FDA noted that while the Philippines successfully managed its first HPAI epidemic […]
(Eagle News) — There are no more cases of the Avian Influenza (AI) A(H5N6) virus or bird flu in the country, according to the Department of Agriculture. The DA said that as early as Jan. 8 this year, the World Organization for Animal Health has declared that the “country is now free of the last remaining A(H5N6) strain of the Avian Influenza (AI).” In a statement released on Tuesday, Jan. 19, the DA said that […]
(Eagle News)–The H5N6 avian influenza or bird flu has been detected in a barangay in Nueva Ecija, the Department of Agriculture said on Monday, March 16. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the samples from a farm in Barangay Ulanin-Pitak, Jaen tested positive for avian influenza. The samples were subjected to tests on Friday, March 13, after the deaths of around 1,500 quails in the area on March 9. The agency has imposed a 1-kilometer radius […]
(Eagle News) — The crisis from the bird flu is now over and it is now safe to eat poultry products, according to both the agriculture and health departments. This announcement was made after there were no more reported cases of birds or fowl that have bird flu, and upon the Department of Agriculture’s order lifting the 7-kilometer radius quarantine restrictions in previously affected areas in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija. This means that the transport […]
(Eagle News) — There are no cases of bird flu transmission in humans in the country so far. This is according to Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial, who held a press conference a day after Australian lab tests confirmed that the strain found in Pampanga farms where the bird flu outbreak took place could be transmitted to people. According to Ubial, the 34 people who were tested for H5N6 because they exhibited flu-like symptoms have tested […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Province of San Luis, Pampanga was placed under a state of calamity last Friday, August 11, due to a confirmed outbreak of avian influenza virus (bird flu) that has killed almost 40,000 poultry animals. Last Monday, August 14, the Department of Agriculture or DA targeted for slaughter more than 200,000 poultry heads such as chicken, ducks, quails, pigeons and fighting cocks as part of the government’s precautionary measure to cut the […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture on Monday (August 14) assured that the current bird flu outbreak in a town in Pampanga is the kind that is not transferrable to humans, as it announced a ban of poultry products, eggs and live birds from Luzon to Visayas and Mindanao as a “precautionary measure.” As of Monday, only 19,000 poultry birds in San Luis, Pampanga – the area of the bird flu outbreak – had […]
Japan has ordered the killing of more than 100,000 chickens after officials confirmed bird flu infections at a poultry farm in the south. It is the first confirmed outbreak in the country since 2011. DNA tests confirmed the H5 strain of the bird flu virus at a farm in Japan’s southern prefecture of Kumamoto after its owner reported on Saturday more than 1,000 sudden deaths among his poultry, the Agriculture Ministry announced in a statement […]
