Animal Health
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
South Korea To Increase Bird Flu Preventive Measures
October 19, 2004 South Korea To Increase Bird Flu Preventive Measures   South Korea will increase precautions against bird flu by introducing stricter medical inspections from next month, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said Monday ...
Monday, October 18, 2004
More Bird Flu Outbreaks Among Poultry In Vietnam
October 18, 2004 More Bird Flu Outbreaks Among Poultry In Vietnam Vietnam reported on Monday more bird flu outbreaks among poultry, underscoring the difficulty in stopping the spread of the disease. Last week, some 3,000 chickens from three ...
Monday, October 18, 2004
Vietnam Reports New Bird Flu Outbreak
October 18, 2004 Vietnam Reports New Bird Flu Outbreak   A new bird flu outbreak has surfaced in southern Vietnam, raising renewed fears in the country, officials said on Saturday. Authorities in the southern province of Long An have culled ...
Friday, October 15, 2004
Japan May Relax Mad Cow Testing Standards
October 15, 2004 Japan May Relax Mad Cow Testing Standards   Japan's agriculture minister on Friday proposed relaxing testing standards for mad cow disease. This move could lead to the end of an eight-month ban on US beef imports. Agricultu ...
Friday, October 15, 2004
Cattle in Indian State Free from Foot and Mouth Disease
October 15, 2004 Cattle in Indian State Free from Foot and Mouth Disease Haryana has become the first state in India where cattle is free from foot and mouth disease. Besides the achievement in eradicating foot and mouth disease, Haryana ha ...
Thursday, October 14, 2004
No Bird Flu Outbreak in Thai Province Songkhla
October 14, 2004 No Bird Flu Outbreak in Thai Province Songkhla Thailand's southern province of Songkhla is completely free of bird flu, according to provincial government officials. The local authorities have also promised to closely monit ...
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Japan Invents Mad Cow Disease Tester
October 14, 2004 Japan Invents Mad Cow Disease Tester Japanese researchers say they have developed a small detector that can more accurately identify mad cow disease. The researchers from the Kyushu University say the detector, which is sma ...
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Thailand Plans To Produce Bird Flu Vaccine
October 12, 2004 Brazil Soy Production To Top 140 Million MT By 2020 Brazilian soy production could reach 140 million metric tons by 2020, according to a study released by Brazil's development bank, or BNDES. There is an additional 15 milli ...
Monday, October 11, 2004
Japan, China, S Korea To Join Asean Bird-Flu Fight
October 11, 2004 Japan, China, S Korea To Join Asean Bird-Flu Fight Japan, China and South Korea have agreed to join an Association of Southeast Asian Nations task force to combat bird flu, the Kyodo news agency reported Friday. Japan, Chin ...
Monday, October 11, 2004
Indonesia Allocates $10 Million To Combat Bird Flu
October 11, 2004 Indonesia Allocates $10 Million To Combat Bird Flu Indonesia has allocated US$10 million to finance a culling and vaccination campaign that should effectively contain its latest outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus, a U.N. ...
Friday, October 8, 2004
New Case Of Mad Cow Disease Detected In Italy
October 8, 2004 New Case Of Mad Cow Disease Detected In Italy Italy reported the latest case of mad cow disease on Tuesday, bringing the number of cases detected in the country to 123 since testing began in 2001, the Health Ministry said. S ...
Thursday, October 7, 2004
Bird Flu May Be Spreading In Indonesia
October 7, 2004 Bird Flu May Be Spreading In Indonesia Bird flu, which killed hundreds of chickens in Grobogan regency, Central Java in Indonesia last week, is suspected to have spread to several other areas across the province in what is b ...
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Korea Declared Free From Bird Flu
October 6, 2004 Korea Declared Free From Bird Flu   While many countries in Asia are struggling with outbreaks of bird flu, Korea has declared that it is free from the deadly virus. And it is working for the early lifting of import bans on ...
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Bird Flu Contained In Vietnam
October 6, 2004 Bird Flu Contained In Vietnam Viet Nam has contained bird flu on a national scale, said acting Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Cao Duc Phat on Tuesday in review of one month of action against the pandemi ...
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Philippines Adopts Migratory Bird Rules To Deter Bird-Flu
October 5, 2004 Philippines Adopts Migratory Bird Rules To Deter Bird-Flu   In a bid to ensure the Philippines remains free of the bird flu virus, the Department of Agriculture has strengthened measures to handle wild, migratory and pet bir ...

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