During the meeting, stakeholders discussed the implementation of an HPAI vaccine program in India. Currently, DAHD permits ...

India’s bird flu crisis deepens as the H5N1 virus spreads beyond poultry infecting tigers leopards jungle cats and pet ...

A key outcome of the meeting was the adoption of a comprehensive, three-pronged strategy aimed at preventing the further ...

India is intensifying biosecurity measures across poultry farms and wildlife sanctuaries in response to the expanding reach of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, which has now affected domestic ...

The Indian government urged poultry farms to improve hygiene and register with authorities within a month to tackle bird flu ...

The Andhra Pradesh government issued a statement saying that only four cases of human avian influenza (H5N1 and H9N2) have been reported in India over the past five years, one each from ...

is a subtype of the avian influenza virus that primarily affects birds, especially poultry. However, several cases across the country have recently raised eyebrows India reported the second death ...

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Bird flu, or avian influenza, is a viral infection that primarily affects birds, especially poultry and wild waterfowl, but in rare cases, it can also infect mammals, including humans and pets.

India has already permitted commercial use of an H9N2 (Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza) vaccine developed by ICAR-NIHSAD, Bhopal, while research has begun on developing an indigenous HPAI vaccine ...

A two-year-old girl from Andhra Pradesh's Palnadu district has died of avian influenza (H5N1 ... documented human fatality from bird flu and the second in India — after a case in Haryana ...