Latest Bird Flu News

UN group to help control bird flu in West Bengal (Calcutta News)
Wednesday April 02nd 2008, 4:57 am

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has announced the launch of an operation to control the spread of bird flu in West Bengal. Avian flu virus hit 13 of the 19 districts in the state this January. [News Source]

UN group to help control bird flu in West Bengal (New Kerala)
Wednesday April 02nd 2008, 2:58 am

Kolkata, April 2: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has announced the launch of an operation to control the spread of bird flu in West Bengal. [News Source]

South Korea says probing suspected bird flu case (The Star)
Wednesday April 02nd 2008, 1:29 am

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is investigating a suspected bird flu outbreak at a poultry farm in the southwest of the country, the food and agriculture ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. [News Source]

Workers burning live birds to curb bird flu in West Bengal (Khaleej Times)
Wednesday April 02nd 2008, 12:49 am

KOLKATA — Officials are burning live birds in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district in a desperate bid to end a culling operation launched after avian flu resurfaced in the state, poultry farmers have said. [News Source]