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Frigid temperatures are hampering efforts to euthanize turkeys at several southwestern IN farms where a strain of bird flu was found last week, freezing the hoses used to spread a foam that suffocates the affected flocks, a spokeswoman for a state agency said Monday. Deaths at...

The World Health Organization on Thursday declared Liberia to be free of Ebola, marking the first time in the two years all three West African countries hit by the tragic epidemic have seen no new cases in 42 days.

“This new case of HPAI in IN should serve as reminder to all Louisiana poultry producers that while we haven’t had any cases of the disease in our state the threat remains”.

Making remarks Thursday at the Ebola Operation Center (EOC) in Congo Town the World Health Organization Country Representative commended the Liberian Government, People, communities, health workers and partners on the successful response to the latest outbreak of Ebola.

Although the virus disappears from most of the body after a person is cured, it can remain in the semen of male survivors for as long as a year, according to WHO.

“While several additional farms were confirmed to have the H7N8 virus in IN over the weekend, all of the newer cases are a low pathogenic version of the H7N8 virus”. The outbreak also led to record-high egg prices.

Communities around Milwaukee gathered to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. And he’s not the only one who understands giving time for the community as a whole.

The UN body says “all known chains of transmission have been stopped in West Africa”, adding that the job is not over, more flare-ups are expected and that strong surveillance and response systems will be critical in the months to come.

Mexico has claimed that Penn’s secret meeting with Guzman was crucial to the recapture of the drug kingpin.

Since the initial highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) case announced on Friday, the other flocks have fallen into the category of LPAI-meaning minor symptoms and hardly any signs of infection. Tests confirmed eight out of the nine have a low-pathogenic strain of the virus,...

On a call with reporters Friday afternoon, T.J. Meyers, associate deputy administrator of APHIS Veterinary Services, said in more than 25,000 samples of wild bird surveillance collected since July, there have been “a few” detections of low pathogenic H7 strains of the...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today declared that the Ebola outbreak in Liberia is over, marking the first time since the outbreak began 2 years ago that all three affected West African countries have been free of the virus at the same time.

NBC in NY reported schools in at least seven states received bomb threats Tuesday including Arizona, Florida and Iowa.

Born in 1982 in Paris, Alaoui was in Burkina Faso on assignment for Amnesty International, the international aid group, the New York Times reported. Burkina Faso’s security minister, Simon Compaore, said on Tuesday that several people had been detained and questioned but he...

Also on Friday, DOH confirmed that laboratory confirmation from the CDC that a past Zika virus infection in a baby recently born with microcephaly in an Oahu hospital.