TEHRAN, Jun 3 - Scientists in Britain have used gene-editing techniques to stop bird flu spreading in chicken cells grown in a lab - a key step towards making genetically-altered chickens that could halt a human flu pandemic.
TEHRAN, March 16 - A senior official at Iran’s Ministry of Agriculture said no new cases of the highly pathogenic bird flu virus has been reported and the country has been declared free of the disease.
Over 20,000 chickens have been exterminated in Taiwan amid a bird flu outbreak, the Bureau of Animal and Plant Inspection and Quarantine (BAPHIQ) has announced.
Tehran, YJC. -- A Chinese poultry worker was confirmed as having contracted the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus, health officials said, the first case in the southern Guangdong province.