Health

Photo credit: Edward Mailyan

06-01-2017 | Photoreport

Watch out for dark droppings

Dietary probiotics could contribute towards improved growth performance, the establishment and maintenance of a beneficial intestinal microbiota, which in turn may enhance colonisation resistance against pathogens and improve immune responses. Photo: Jan Willem van Vliet

06-01-2017 | Article

Probiotic form effects on performance and health parameters

epa05688136 A 'Birds flu blocked area' notice hangs at the entrance to a mast barn closed by the police after the outbreak of avian influenza near Doetlingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, 25 December 2016. After the occurrence of the H5N8 virus, some 10,000 animals had to be killed. In the last few days there have been repeated outbreaks of avian influenza in Lower Saxony stables. EPA/INGO WAGNER

28-12-2016 | News

Asia and Europe continue to battle HPAI

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27-12-2016 | News

Is GM technology the future of poultry vaccines?

OIE launches avian influenza web portal. Photo credit: EPA/Yonhap South Korea out

23-12-2016 | News

OIE launches avian influenza web portal

Photo credit: Edward Mailyan

23-12-2016 | Photoreport

What to do if poultry droppings contain mucus and blood

2012-06-28 09:53:48 epa03285133 Thai factory workers process chicken meat dressed in protective clothing during a work at the Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF), Thailand's largest chicken manufacturer and exporter to Europe and Japan, in Saraburi Province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, 28 June 2012. Thai poultry industry emerges from bird flu scare stronger as the EU will lift ban on raw chicken meat exports on 01 July, after Thailand fulfilled an EU requirement of staying HPAI free for three years as of February 2009. Eight years ago the European Union slapped a ban on Thailand's raw chicken meat exports after the local industry was hit by an outbreak of avian influenza in late 2003 that would claim the lives of seven people and 60 million culled birds. In 2011, Thailand's cooked chicken meat exports amounted to 435,000 tons, (200,000 tons of which was shipped to the EU) and 27,000 tons of raw meat. Prospects for chicken exports brightened this year when the EU decided to lift its ban on Thailand's raw 'salted' meat, providing the kingdom with a 92,000 ton quota at favourable tariff rates. EPA/NARONG SANGNAK

21-12-2016 | Article

AAAP: Woody breast not linked to infectious pathogens

Record bird cull ordered in South Korea. Photo: EPA/Yonhap

19-12-2016 | News

Record bird cull ordered in South Korea

Blood in caecal droppings - sound alarm bells. Photo: Edward Mailyan

16-12-2016 | Photoreport

Blood in caecal droppings – sound alarm bells

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