School kids are helping keep chickens disease-free in Mozambique, and the organizer of the program says it could help other African countries in the battle against bird flu. The children are trained on how to use eye-droppers to give the vaccine to the chickens. Heifer said it decided to use village schoolchildren because of the challenges of past vaccination programs and a shortage of qualified veterinary workers in rural Africa. Geneti Debia, the organization's program officer for...

The CSIRO team is working on a genetic change that could be bred into chickens, making them immune to avian influenza. CSIRO scientists in Victoria are in an international race to develop a genetically modified chicken immune to the killer bird flu. The project builds on work by the CSIRO into ribonucleic acid (RNA) and adapts it to poultry so that chickens are unable to catch bird flu. The super chickens would have to be labelled genetically modified but would still taste like regular chicken.

The Punjab poultry industry, which was ranked first in India in 1984, has dropped to the seventh due to what farmers' term as the anti-poultry attitude of the government. Punjab poultry farmers see big market players as threat to their industry. Agitated poultry farmers claim that they experiencing huge losses due to natural calamities and with the presence of mega companies. Punjab is the first state in the country to introduce contract farming at the government level. The Punjab poultry...

That means observing food-safety guidelines to prevent harmful bacteria from multiplying and causing food-borne illness. If some of the marinade is to be used as a sauce on the cooked food, reserve some marinade before putting raw meat and poultry in it. If the marinade used on raw meat or poultry is to be reused, make sure to let it come to a boil first to destroy harmful bacteria. Here are some grilling tips for the chefs With summer basically here, cooking outdoors gains steams. Don't...

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Vietnam latest news - Thanh Nien Daily. WHO dismisses new fears over bird flu. The World Health Organization (WHO) said there was no new evidence that the H5N1 virus has become more easily transmittable from poultry to humans, the Vietnam News daily reported Friday. WHO's communications officer in Vietnam Dida Connor made the comment following fears of a potential new outbreak of bird flu in human as two human cases have been confirmed in two northern provinces of Vinh Phuc and Thai...