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An Italian surgeon claims to have carried out the world’s first head transplant on a monkey and plans to repeat the procedure on a living human by the end of next year.

“Increase incidents of microcephaly in Brazil, which is linked to acquiring the virus while pregnancy”, said Dr. Daniel Skiest, chief of infectious diseases at Baystate Medical Center.

A brand-new strain of avian flu, this one called H7N8, has been found on a turkey farm in Indiana. Though most of the flock on the IN farm was killed within 29 hours. Tests confirmed eight out of the nine have a low-pathogenic strain of the virus, the USDA said in a statement on...

A bird flu virus that’s a different strain than the one that ravaged turkey and chicken farms in the Midwest last summer has been found at a southern in turkey farm, federal officials said Friday, cautioning that a quick response could stem any larger outbreak. Water is...

That strain led to the deaths of 48 million birds, mostly chickens and turkeys.

The Zika virus transmission has been documented in Brazil, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Martinique, Paraguay, El Salvador, Mexico, Suriname, French Guiana, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, Guyana, Haiti, Barbados, Ecuador and St Martin.

EARLIER: Animal health officials investigating a bird flu outbreak in southwest in have ordered 156,000 chickens at one of 10 affected commercial poultry farms to be euthanized, raising the total number of birds to be killed above 400,000. It’s been so cold that foam used...

(Closed): US markets were flat on Tuesday, their first trading session of the week, as oil continued to drag energy stocks down.

Testing at nearby farms in the wake of a highly pathogenic H7N8 avian flu outbreak that struck a turkey facility in southern in last week turned up a low-pathogenic version of the virus eight more farms, hinting that the virus mutated to a more lethal strain as it spread.

“Government failed you – federal, state and local leaders – by breaking the trust you placed in us”, Snyder said, as reported by Fox6 News.

He said: “In memory of David Bowie we would like everyone in the world who was ever touched by his art to play “Starman” at 12 noon tomorrow Saturday January 16″.

“There is virtually no risk to IL residents since you can not contract Zika virus from another person, but only through the bite of an infected mosquito”, said Dr. Nirav Shah, the health department’s director, in a statement.

Now, two pregnant women in the continental US have tested positive for Zika virus, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health on Tuesday.

Indiana State Board of Animal Health spokeswoman Denise Derrer said Sunday that 100 farms tested over 24 hours came back negative.

A doctor at the French hospital where a volunteer in an experimental drug test died says that the health of five others hospitalized last week is improving and one has returned home.