The HPAI virus has been contained significantly in Japan and British Columbia, and exports to the Philippines will resume. (Image source: NadiaJasmine/SXC.HU)
The Philippines has lifted the ban on poultry imports from Japan and Canada, following confirmation that the countries are free from the bird flu virus
Unlike the conventional method of testing, which requires different samples for different tests, the portable Lab-on-Chip application is able to detect multiple infectious disease agents affecting poultry using only one sample. (Image source: PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay)
A poultry biochip has been launched that can detect nine major diseases using a single sample applied to the portable, disposable chip
(From left) Harm Langen, Somnuk Hophaisarn, Bas Kanters, Nadine Lauvoravitaya, Veerasak Wuthiwaropas and Bart Aangenendt. (Image source: Centaco)
Thailand’s agribusiness enterprise Centaco Group has announced plans to fully expand its integrated operation in the country with a new hatchery from Pas Reform
The product will be tailored for poultry, while Novozymes and Adisseo will explore future opportunities to expand into probiotics for both poultry and swine. (Image source: Pixabay)
Adisseo and Novozymes have entered into a partnership to develop and market probiotics for poultry
The findings have been published in the Journal of Virology and is the first study to look at an H7N9 vaccine in chickens, the animals the disease originates in. (Image source: Schwanengesang/Pixabay)
Researchers in the USA have developed a vaccine H5N1 and H7N9 strains of avian influenza — rampant in Southeast Asia — using the Newcastle disease virus strain
