Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A poultry farm in Castelnau-Tursan PARIS (Reuters) -France raised the risk level of bird flu to 'high' from 'moderate' ...

France on Monday began Europe's only vaccination campaign against bird flu in ducks, hoping to avoid mass culls of millions of birds that have dearly cost the industry in recent years. "There's high ...

Of all the recently emerging and potentially pandemic viruses, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus H5N1 is one of the fiercest. First detected in Hong Kong in 1997, it spread to the ...

France recently bumped its alert level for bird flu (technically called high-pathogenic avian influenza) up to “high” nationwide. "This decree... was issued following evidence of infection among ...

France just raised its bird flu alert to "high" nationwide. Not just France, but Germany too raised alarm over bird flu, and have linked the risk to poultry farms as "high" as cases continue to rise ...

The inoculations are aimed at curbing the spread of a lethal strain of bird flu, and to support foie gras, a cherished delicacy. By Emma Bubola To protect its flocks and its foie gras from the ravages ...

PARIS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - France began vaccinating ducks against bird flu on Monday to try and stem the virus that killed millions of birds worldwide, a move that prompted the United States to impose ...

A common blackbird in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. (Photo by Juan Emilio, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Courthouse News) A common blackbird in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. (Photo by Juan Emilio, ...

PARIS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - France raised the risk level of bird flu to 'high' from 'moderate' on Tuesday after new cases of the disease were detected, forcing poultry farms to keep birds indoors to stem ...

Of all the recently emerging and potentially pandemic viruses, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus H5N1 is one of the fiercest. First detected in Hong Kong in 1997, it spread to the ...