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(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.
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture is looking into the possible criminal liability of people who reportedly had the “intent to refuse to share information” about the outbreak of bird flu in San Luis, Pampanga. In a radio interview on Monday, Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said he has directed the Bureau of Animal Industry to do this. “Tingin ko, sa ating mga protocol, ay merong mga kaparusahan pag di sila nagreport,” he said. […]
DA temporarily bans movement of “live domestic and wild birds, and their products” from Luzon to Visayas and Mindanao, and from Pampanga to other parts of Luzon. (Eagle News) — Agriculture Secretary Manny Pinol has confirmed there was a bird flu outbreak in San Luis, Pampanga. In a press conference on Friday, Pinol said an immediate cull was ordered for all chicken, ducks and quail within a kilometer (0.6 miles) of the infected poultry in the […]
AGUSAN DEL SUR (Eagle News) – Idineklara ng Pamahalaang Panlalawigan ng Agusan del Sur ang “state of calamity” dahil sa pinsalang dulot ng mga pagbaha sa nasabing probinsiya. Ito ay dala ng tail end of cold front noong nakaraang linggo at matinding pag-ulan na patuloy na nananalasa sa malaking bahagi ng Mindanao. Mayroong ng 8 Munisipyo sa Agusan del Sur ang naunang nagdeklara ng state of calamity, ito ay ang sumusunod: San Luis Esperanza Loreto La Paz […]
