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Japan culled record 5.8 million chickens since November 2020
Updated : 1 hour, 31 min ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], January 18 (ANI/Sputnik): Japan has culled record 5.8 million chickens since November due to bird flu, the NHK broadcaster reported Sunday.
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Maharashtra confirms bird flu, 800 chickens found dead in Murumba
Updated : 6 days, 15 hours ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 11 (ANI): Maharashtra has confirmed bird flu after 800 chickens found dead at Murumba village in Parbhani district, an official said.
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Delhi: Poultry sales dropped by 50 per cent amid bird flu scare
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 9 (ANI): With the anxiety of bird flu or avian influenza spreading fast, people are not buying eggs and chickens much, which gave a fresh blow to the poultry industry.
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4 lakh chickens died in Haryana poultry farms in one month; Glande
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], January 9 (ANI): At a time when avian influenza has been detected in several states, over four lakh chickens have died in Haryana in the last month, JP Dalal, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Fisheries Minister of Haryana said on Saturday.
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Bird flu detected at chicken farm in Japan's Hiroshima
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Hiroshima [Japan], December 7 (ANI): Bird flu has been detected at a chicken farm in Hiroshima prefecture, The Japan Times reported citing local government officials on Monday.
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Another avian flu outbreak detected in Japan
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], November 21 (ANI/Sputnik); Japan's southern Kagawa prefecture detected another avian flu outbreak in the Mitoyo city on Saturday and is set to cull 77,000 chickens, the NHK broadcaster reported.
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Thousands of chickens culled in Denmark as new bird flu outbreak e
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], November 17 (ANI/Sputnik): A bird flu outbreak has forced the Danish authorities to cull about 25,000 chickens in central Jutland, according to the country's Veterinary and Food Administration.
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World Day for Farmed Animals celebrated across Asia
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India] October 3 (ANI/NewsVoir): International animals' welfare organization, World Animal Protection along with the Asia for Animals coalition is celebrating World Day for Farmed Animals to bring focus on the need to treat farm animals as sentient beings and make visible the impo
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World Animal Protection asks consumers to step forward and demand
Updated : 4 months, 4 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 21 (ANI/NewsVoir): International animal welfare organisation, World Animal Protection has launched a pledge urging consumers to help end the suffering of chickens in intensive poultry farms.
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Hens that lay human proteins in eggs may help in future drug produ
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 28 (ANI): Chickens that have been genetically modified to produce human proteins in eggs can offer a cost-effective method of producing certain types of drugs.
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942 chickens infected with Avian Influenza in Bengaluru
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Jan 5 (ANI): A stray incidence of Avian Influenza with H5 Virus Strain was confirmed in around 942 chickens at Bengaluru's Dasarahalli, after which the infected birds were culled and disposed.
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Egg-free surrogate chickens can save rare poultry breeds
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb. 18 (ANI): To boost breeding of endangered poultry breeds, Briton researchers have come up with gene-editing techniques for the rare breeds to use them as surrogates that cannot produce their own chicks.
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