Ingredients News | Ingredients News – Ingredients Information

bird flu

02/24/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Bird flu fears force France to slaughter all ducks in major poultry producing region

Avian influenza, or bird flu as its commonly known, is a viral infection that was restricted to birds, particularly chickens, until 1997, when the first human patients were diagnosed in Hong Kong with the H5N1 strain. Now the agriculture ministry in France has announced an outbreak of a different strain of bird flu, the H5N8 […]

1 of 1