The Philippines has imposed a temporary ban on poultry shipments from Belgium due to a bird flu outbreak. Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. signed Memorandum Order (MO) 73, which ...
The Philippines’s topography should have deterred the spread of animal diseases, especially considering that logistics is challenging and expensive for transporting goods to the major islands. The ...
Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, ...
Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified a few instances of asymptomatic human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus. Widespread in wild birds ...
An ongoing outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has affected more than 184 million domestic poultry since 2022 and, ...
There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission and the risk to the general public is low, however, health officials ...
In the first half of 2025, two HPAI outbreaks linked to the H5N1 virus were recorded in Egypt. According to a six-monthly report submitted by the authorities to WOAH recently, these directly impacted ...