Monday, April 19, 2004
Mutation Of Bird Flu Virus Into A New Strain Possible Warn Japanese Scientists
April 19, 2004 Mutation Of Bird Flu Virus Into A New Strain Possible Warn Japanese Scientists     Japanese scientists warn that the mutation of the Bird Flu virus into a new strain is possible. Despite a series of declarations by prefectura ...
Monday, April 19, 2004
USDA Offers To Test Cattle Older Than 30 Months For Mad Cow
April 19, 2004 USDA Offers To Test Cattle Older Than 30 Months For Mad Cow The U.S. Department of Agriculture is offering U.S. producers to test cattle that are over 30 months of age for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, ...
Monday, April 19, 2004
Canada Livestock Co-Op To Implement Mad Cow Testing
April 19, 2004 Canada Livestock Co-Op To Implement Mad Cow Testing Being one of the smallest slaughterhouses in Canada hasn't stopped a new Peace region livestock co-op from planning to revolutionize the way beef is marketed in North Americ ...
Friday, April 16, 2004
Canada Bird Flu Spread To 29 Farms
April 16, 2004 Canada Bird Flu Spread To 29 Farms Two more farms have now been confirmed to have avian flu in British Columbia's Fraser Valley.   The virus has now been detected on a farm in Surrey, far outside the original five-kilometre-r ...
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Japan To Call For Blanket Mad Cow Testing
April 14, 2004 Japan To Call For Blanket Mad Cow Testing Japan will call on the Paris-based Organization for Animal Health, or OIE, to carry out rule changes to emphasize the importance of testing all cattle for mad cow disease, agricultura ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Canada Bird Flu Spreads To 25 Farms
April 13, 2004 Canada Bird Flu Spreads To 25 Farms   The bird flu outbreak in Canada has spread to 25 farms inside British Columbia's Fraser Valley, officials said on Monday. But the increase, with three new infected sites since Friday, is ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Vietnam To Test Trovac Vaccination For Bird Flu
April 13, 2004 Vietnam To Test Trovac Vaccination For Bird Flu   The Veterinary Department of Vietnam has recently agreed its Ho Chi Minh City Service to test Trovac vaccinations for chicken flu virus H5N1 in the city from April 15 to Augus ...
Friday, April 9, 2004
US Meat Group: USDA Underestimated Cost Of New BSE Rules
April 9, 2004 US Meat Group: USDA Underestimated Cost Of New BSE Rules The U.S. Department of Agriculture significantly underestimated how much it will cost industry to comply with new bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, r ...
Thursday, April 8, 2004
Japan Declare Kyoto Farms Free Of Bird Flu
April 8, 2004 Japan Declare Kyoto Farms Free Of Bird Flu   Japanese authorities have declared on Wednesday that two farms in Kyoto Prefecture and their vicinity are now free of the highly pathogenic bird flu virus and gave the green light t ...
Thursday, April 8, 2004
UK Livestock Industry Not Recovered From Foot-And-Mouth
April 8, 2004 UK Livestock Industry Not Recovered From Foot-And-Mouth Nearly three years on from the U.K.'s foot-and- mouth crisis that devastated its livestock industries, only the national beef herd has recovered to pre-2001 levels.   Acc ...
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Vietnam Bans Live Poultry Sale In Ho Chi Minh City
April 6, 2004 Vietnam Bans Live Poultry Sale In Ho Chi Minh City Just one week after Vietnam declared itself free of bird flu, its biggest city has barred the sale of live chickens at markets and near homes to prevent the repeat of the viru ...
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Canada To Cull 19 Million Poultry In Bid To Stop Bird Flu
April 6, 2004 Canada To Cull 19 Million Poultry In Bid To Stop Bird Flu Canada have announced that it will cull up to 80% or 19 million chickens and turkey in bird flu hit British Columbia in a bid to halt the rapid spread of the virus. The ...
Friday, April 2, 2004
Thailand Declare Latest Bird Flu Outbreaks Suppressed
April 2, 2004 Thailand Declare Latest Bird Flu Outbreaks Suppressed Thai livestock officials have declared the recent flare-up of bird flu in two Chiang Mai districts suppressed with no new infections reported. "The situation is already und ...
Friday, April 2, 2004
US Set To Lift Bird Flu Restrictions In Maryland
April 1, 2004 US Set To Lift Bird Flu Restrictions In Maryland Agriculture officials in Maryland expects current restrictions on poultry imposed as a result of the recent bird flu outbreak to be lifted after extensive testing showed no new ...
Friday, April 2, 2004
Japan Refuses To Budge On US Mad Cow Testing
April 2, 2004 Japan Refuses To Budge On US Mad Cow Testing Japan doesn't support a U.S. proposal to set worldwide testing standards for mad cow disease by the end of the month, a Japanese official said Thursday.   Washington wants the Paris ...

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