Russia announced on Saturday that it had identified the first cases of H5N8 avian influenza in humans, according to multiple reports. The country’s public health chief Anna Popova said in a televised comment that seven cases had been found among workers at a poultry farm in southern Russia. Bloomberg News …
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By Aaron Sheldrick, Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s worst bird flu outbreak has spread to new farms and now affects more than 20% of the country’s pre-47 prefectures, officials have ordered clearing after more poultry deaths. File photo: Officers in protective uniforms work on a chicken farm, where an …
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By Aaron Sheldrick, Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s worst bird flu outbreak has spread to new farms and now affects more than 20% of the country’s pre-47 prefectures, officials have ordered clearing after more poultry deaths. File photo: Officers in protective uniforms work on a chicken farm, where an …
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BEIJING / SHANGHAI / BRAZIL (Reuters) – Two cities in China have found traces of the new coronavirus in loads of imported frozen food, local authorities said on Thursday, although the World Health Organization reduced the risk of the virus entering the food chain. A man looks at frozen food …
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Hundreds of people across the United States have become sick with salmonella, and the cause is likely contact with backyard chickens. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of July 28, 938 people in 48 states are infected with salmonella. Thirty-three percent of those people have been …
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