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President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, August 28, vowed assistance for poultry raisers who were affected by the bird flu virus in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija, as he stressed the safety of poultry products for consumption. “To help the industry recover, the government, through the Department of Agriculture, will assist in the affected poultry raisers in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija to defray their losses through interventions such as loans and capacity building trainings,” the President […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News) – The bird flu strain that hit Pampanga is H5N6, a strain of avian influenza that can be transmitted to humans, the Department of Agriculture said, citing confirmatory results of tests of affected samples that the Philippines had submitted to another country. The government, however, said that the rate of transmission for such a strain is “very low.” The agriculture department had earlier sent the samples from Pampanga of the affected poultry […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Department of Agriculture (DA) regional executive director Roy Abaya on Monday, August 21 announced that the cleaning and disinfecting process with areas exposed to the avian influenza virus had been completed. Abaya said that almost 500,000 poultry animals were culled in bird flu-affected farms, but will still have to wait for another 21 days before declaring the town of San Luis, Pampanga of bird flu-free. “Then we will wait […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture on Tuesday lifted the ban on the transport of poultry products from Luzon, to Visayas and Mindanao. The agriculture department had imposed the ban after it declared a bird flu outbreak in San Luis, Pampanga. The ban remained in place after the department declared a bird flu outbreak in two towns in Nueva Ecija days after.
An outbreak of H1N1 in Myanmar has now killed 27 as the government is starting to step up public awareness campaigns about the swine flu virus. Since the H1N1 outbreak started on July 21, 277 of 725 respiratory infection patients have been diagnosed as H1N1 influenza A virus victims across the entirety of Myanmar. Among the 277, 27 people have died, and the number of infected patients is increasing, the latest statistics from the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police Region III Office will arrest individuals who will attempt to smuggle poultry products out of the 1-kilometer quarantine zone in Pampanga affected by avian flu. According to PNP Region III Director Chief Supt. Aaron Aquino, the PNP had already established checkpoints in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry in order to control the egress of poultry products in the 1-km quarantine zone. https://youtu.be/BJeI1hjiSgY
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture has confirmed that two cases of bird flu in two towns of Nueva Ecija and are set to do culling operations within the one kilometer radius of the farms where the cases had been found. Agricullture Secretary Manny Piñol said that the confirmed cases were in the towns of Jaen and San Isidro. He said that in Jaen, the bird flu case was confirmed in […]
(Eagle News) — The two poultry workers from Pampanga who exhibited flu symptoms have tested negative for bird flu. In a radio interview on Wednesday, Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial said based on the results of the test done by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, the poultry workers from San Luis where a bird flu outbreak was declared this week had influenza type B, or human influenza, instead. Influenza type A is bird flu, while […]
(Eagle News) — Mismong sina Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel “Manny” Piñol at mga lokal na opisyal ng Pampanga ang kumain ng mga balut at iba pang poultry dishes ng San Luis, Pampanga. Ito’y upang ipakita na ligtas kainin ang mga itlog at iba pang poultry products mula sa nasabing bayan at sa buong lalawigan. Subalit sa harap nito, hindi pa rin mailalabas ang mga poultry product mula sa idineklarang one-kilometer radius control area kung saan naka-concentrate […]
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 […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The prices of poultry products in Metro Manila markets dropped due to the outbreak of bird flu in Pampanga. According to the group Samahan ng Industriya ng Agrikultra (SINAG), the price of chicken in Metro Manila markets dropped from an average of Php 160 per kilo to Php 135 per kilo while wholesale prices dropped from Php 125 per kilo to Php 110 per kilo. The Philippine government on […]
