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Weekly global protein digest: HPAI infects US turkey flocks
12 Sep 2025 02:21 GMT
Livestock analyst Jim Wyckoff reports on global protein news including that Perdue Farms is laying off workers in Indiana, USA
China wants hog producers to cut production
China’s government has summoned its biggest hog producers to discuss measures to cut …
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Waddle they do? African penguins back on exhibit at Lehigh Valley Zoo, but bird flu concerns remain
07 Apr 2025 20:48 GMT
… due to bird flu spreading through the region, the African penguin … type A virus, bird flu, also called highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI, or … infected, including 5,000 migratory snow geese in Nazareth … So we have swans and Egyptian geese that are still …
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Science news this week: An 'interstellar visitor' and the oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever sequenced
05 Jul 2025 04:55 GMT
To kick off this week's science news, our solar system received an unexpected "interstellar visitor." On Tuesday (July 1), NASA and the International Astronomical Union confirmed the existence of a mysterious space object, most likely a comet …
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Bird flu is ravaging egg supply, but a deadlier strain is coming from overseas
29 Mar 2025 18:45 GMT
Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next pandemic.
Along the untamed coast of southern Victoria, where thyme rice-flower and coast daisy hustle for space and mud flats melt …
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RFK Jr.’s Faulty Advice On Bird Flu
28 Mar 2025 23:23 GMT
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino.
In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread in poultry flocks unchecked. Scientists say that’s …
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With Bird Flu, Our Factory Farmed Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
15 Mar 2025 14:21 GMT
… , set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats … virus that causes bird flu, or highly pathogenic avian influenza, as it has … fledglings on the remote South African island of Marion, killed … a crucial threshold, when wild birds exposed to concentrations of …
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Boehringer Ingelheim launches new trivalent poultry vaccine, Vaxxitek HVT+IBD+H5 to protect against Marek’s disease, infectious bursal disease, and H5 avian influenza
25 Feb 2025 08:27 GMT
With Vaxxitek HVT+IBD+H5, Boehringer Ingelheim is expanding its proven Vaxxitek range with a new vaccine that protects against three severe poultry diseases: Marek’s disease, infectious bursal disease, and H5 avian influenza. Leveraging our extensive …
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Boehringer Ingelheim launches new trivalent poultry vaccine, includes protection against H5 avian influenza
24 Feb 2025 09:30 GMT
VAXXITEK® HVT+IBD+H5 is a new trivalent vaccine for poultry that offers protection against Marek’s disease, Infectious Bursal Disease and H5 avian influenza in just one shot. H5 avian influenza is a highly contagious and notifiable zoonotic disease, that …
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What Is Bird Flu And How Does It Affect Food?
20 Feb 2025 16:02 GMT
Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, or H5N1 bird flu, has dominated headlines worldwide in 2025. The virus is one of the reasons behind surging egg prices and widespread shortages of other grocery store items, like milk. On January 6, 2025, the U.S. …
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What's causing bird flu to surge? Probably climate change, experts say
12 Jan 2025 10:38 GMT
Guillemots, black and white birds each measuring about a foot tall, cram together on Skomer Island to starve off predators and protect their eggs, of which each reproducing bird lays just one each year. On this island off the coast of Wales, nearly 100,000 …