Japan's Hokkaido prefecture began culling on Saturday some 210,000 chicken at a poultry farm where highly pathogenic bird flu strain had been detected.
Nov 29 Japan started culling more than 300,000 chickens and ducks after a highly contagious form of bird flu was found in two locations in the north of the country, Kyodo news reported on Tuesday.
The biggest ever flu vaccine program for children in England was announced Wednesday. Public Health England (PHE) is to extend its annual flu program to include children in year 3, helping to protect millions of people most at risk.
The Myanmar authorities are taking measures in Mandalay region in a bid to prevent spread of bird flu which broke out in Monywa, northwestern Sagaing region earlier this month by checking regional main border gates, according to an official of the Department of Livestock Breeding Friday
Australia's leading influenza expert body on Monday urged citizens to book a flu shot now as the number of local people dying of flu keeps rising.
The Philippine government has put in place measures to ensure that deadly contagious diseases, such as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), will not spread in the country, a senior government official said Tuesday.
The H1N1 virus or swine flu has killed over 800 in India since the beginning of the year, said health officials Sunday.
In two samples of droppings from wild ducks around Kamerik, in the province of Utrecht, highly pathogenic bird flu of the H5 type was found, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs announced on Monday night.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Organization for Animal Health warned on Monday that a new bird flu strain has been detected in Europe, UN spokesman Staphane Dujarric told reporters here.
The strain of bird flu found at a British farm in north England has been identified as H5N8, the same as the one recently identified in the Netherlands and Germany, according to the environment department.
U.S. research expPregnant women were more likely to get sicker from the flu than other healthy adults because they have an unusually strong immune response to influenza, a new study from the Stanford University said Monday.
The outbreak of the flu in Greece has reached alarming levels with fatalities rising to 79 this winter, according to the latest data released on Wednesday.
The number of people died from swine flu in Egypt since the beginning of December 2013 has increased to 44, Ahmed Kamel, spokesman of the Egyptian Health Ministry, told Xinhua Thursday.
Greek state health authorities warned of a flu outbreak on Wednesday after recording 18 deaths out of more than 70 patients hospitalized with complications since the start of winter.
Officials confirmed Tuesday four patients in the U.S. state of Texas have died of a mysterious flu- like illness, local media reported. A total of eight confirmed patients, ranging in age from 41 to 68, were admitted to hospital with flu symptoms in Montgomery County, but tests for influenza were negative, the website of the Houston Chronicle reported.
Two more people were confirmed infected with the H7N9 bird flu in Shanghai.By Saturday, China confirmed 18 H7N9 cases, killing six people.
China reported three more H7N9 infections on Sunday, bringing total number of the confirmed cases to 21 as the country is gearing up to fight the disease that has left six dead.
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