headquarters because Carl Strickler, its president and chief operating officer, is from Abington and wanted a location close to both chicken farms and a major airport. We focused on getting to know the poultry industry around the country. The generator is expected to reach full capacity by the end of the summer. Our technology is based on the combustion of poultry, therefore we can cope with a certain amount of moisture. Q: Why chickens? Other types of farm animals, including cows and...

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Dutch customs have deployed two special bird flu dogs at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to check flights from high-risk countries for poultry, the authorities said Saturday. The dogs, German shepherd Bo and Belgian shepherd Judy, are checking flights from countries where the bird flu virus has been found such as China, Thailand, Egypt, Russia and Turkey, the Dutch ministry of finance, which controls the customs service, said in a statement. The dogs, German shepherd Bo and Belgian shepherd...

Coughlan said her officials had been in close contact with the agriculture department in Northern Ireland and a similar ban on pigeon racing was also introduced there Monday. The fear stems from past influenza outbreaks, with researchers believing a strain of bird flu related to today's virus caused the death of tens of millions of people during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Scientists worry the H5N1 bird flu virus could mutate into a form easily spread among humans, leading to a global...

If a poultry farmer gets infected with the avian flu and his daughter, say, comes home with the non-avian flu, she can infect her father, and the two versions of the flu would exchange genes. Sometimes, the CDCs predictions are wrong and the flu vaccine produced for that year can be ineffective. The flu viruss adhesive parts normally attach to a cell, allowing the virus to destroy that cell and populate others. Then, they tell drug companies for which flu they should prepare. A major focus...

Speaking at the two-day National Dairy Symposium last week, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Mr David Chapfika, said ministry would leave no stone unturned to remove all impediments to the successful implementation of the National Agriculture Policy, which will see the increase of production in the both the dairy and beef sector. GOVERNMENT is prepared to work with all stakeholders in the development of the agriculture sector so as to restore Zimbabwe's competitive advantage on the...