Burkina Faso’s government confirmed on Wednesday that an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu was responsible for the deaths of large numbers of chickens in two regions of the country in recent weeks.
China’s decision has been widely criticized as the possibility of an outbreak of the flu in commercial flocks is believed to be very less.
After mishandling Ebola, avian flu and anthrax during the past year, the CDC is now recruiting for its new safety-chief position.
Doctors warn that low temperatures during winter could cause the virus to stay active for a longer period of time.
The latest diagnosis marks the second reported case of H7N9 bird flu in China in the past two weeks.
While the virus detected in the Netherlands was identified as H5N8, the strain of the virus in the U.K. has so far not been identified.
The U.N. is warning about A(H5N6), a new strain of avian flu that is striking chicken and geese from China to Vietnam.
CDC, on Friday, shut down two labs that mishandled anthrax and bird flu viruses and barred shipment of samples from high security labs.
As more H7N9 fatalities are reported, scientists determine a gene found in Chinese people may make them more susceptible to sickness.
Chinese health officials have confirmed that a new strain of bird flu has killed a woman in Jiangxi province.
A 73-year-old woman apparently contracted the virus after visiting a live-poultry market in a town 450 miles southwest of Shanghai.
Scientists think a 32-year-old woman caught the new bird flu strain from her father.
A strain of the H7N9 bird flu virus found in a human patient efficiently spread from one ferret to another in a new study.
New bird flu infections are spreading outward from Shanghai, Chinese officials said on Tuesday.
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China's H7N9 avian flu death toll rises with one more death confirmed.
IBTimes reporters visited hospitals and markets in China to get a closer look at the avian flu situation.
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McDonald’s restaurants in Shanghai slashed chicken McNugget prices amid rising bird flu concerns.
Although the number of those infected is slowly rising, officials in China say the current H7N9 avian flu will be easier to contain than SARS.
China confirmed Friday a sixth death from a lesser known H7N9 strain of the bird flu virus, while 14 people remain infected.
After China's Health Ministry confirmed the nation's first human cases of the new H7N9 bird flu strain, four more people now have the disease.