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Tuesday 9 August 2022
It means that eggs can be classified as ‘free range’ again as hens are let out and about.
The risk to humans is considered very low but people are advised not to handle sick or dead wild birds.
The highly pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 has been reported in birds across Ireland.
The highly pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 has already been confirmed in birds across the island this year.
The illness was detected in a sample taken from a Peregrine Falcon.
The risk to humans from the H5N8 subtype is considered to be very low.
Risk to humans from the virus is considered very low.
The risk to humans is considered to be very low.
The risk to humans is considered to be very low.
The H5N8 virus is highly pathogenic, and has been found across the UK and Europe in recent times.
It’s a precautionary measure after outbreaks of bird flu in the UK.
An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N8 (bird flu) has been confirmed in Lincolnshire.
‘Influenza viruses constantly reinvent themselves’, says the head of the WHO. ‘No one can predict the future course.’
Police in China’s southwest city of Guiyang detained three people for claiming H7N9 had been found in a poultry market, according to police.
A temporary exclusion zone is lifted after further tests on a flock of game birds in Clonakilty show bird flu had not spread.
The Department of Agriculture said today that bird flu found in pheasants in Clonakilty is not the deadly H5N1 strain. However all biosecurity measures will remain in place in Barryroe, where results are expected on ill pheasants there.
Forget SARS, forget swine flu, forget foot-and-mouth disease… the original virus of doom is back.
TRIBUTES HAVE POURED in following the death of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John. She was 73.
The British-born, Aussie-raised star was best known for playing Sandy in the film adaptation of Grease in 1978.
The film’s soundtrack remains one of the best-selling albums of all time.
So today we’re asking: What’s your favourite Grease song?
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