Financial Tribune - Iranian poultry farms have been dealing with the deadly avian flu, especially the H5N8 strain of the virus, for several years now. The virus has done a number on Irans poultry industry. Iran Veterinary Organization has devised measures to deal with the flu and help reduce losses. Director General of IVOs Health and Management ...

Tasnim A senior official at Irans Ministry of Agriculture said no new cases of the highly pathogenic bird flu virus has been reported and the country has been declared free of the disease. Speaking to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on Thursday night, Hamid Varnaseri, the managing director of the State Livestock Affairs Logistics ...

Financial Tribune- A ccording to data released by the Central Bank of Iran on food prices, a carton of 30 eggs cost 126,000-160,000 rials ($2.7-3.5) during the week to January 19 up 35.8% compared to the same period last year, ISNA reported. The price hike is largely blamed on shortages due to the recent outbreak of avian flu, which has infected ...

Tasnim A senior official at Irans Health Ministry dismissed as false recent reports about deaths of some people in the country due to the outbreak of bird flu. All the recent cases of avian flu in the country are seasonal and the prevalence of the disease shows no difference compared to previous years, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, the director of Health ...

Financial Tribune- A round 17 million chickens have been culled in Iran so far, due to the recent outbreak of aviation flu, the chairman of the board of directors at Tehrans Union of Producers of Egg-Laying Chicken said. Nasser Nabipour added that almost all the provinces across the country, except Semnan and Khorasan Razavi, are now dealing with ...

Financial Tribune- The government has allocated 1 trillion rials ($24 million) as compensation to chicken farmers for the massive losses caused by the recent outbreak of avian flu across the country, Government Spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said on Tuesday. He said 30% of the amount have already been paid out, adding that last year, 300 billion ...

Press TV- Irans Ministry of Health has detected flu in birds in 15 Iranian provinces and has prohibited the use of local poultry products nationwide. Mahmood Soroush, the head of the ministrys Center for Communicable Disease Control, told Irans IRNA news agency on Saturday that the avian flu, most common form of which is the H5N8 strain, had infected ...

ARKA News Agency- Armenias State Food Safety Service, an affiliation of the Ministry of Agriculture, said today it has temporarily banned the import of a number of goods from six regions of Iran because of bird flu. The agency said the ban is to prevent penetration of the highly virulent avian flu from the territory of Iran into the territory of ...

AFP- Iran has killed hundreds of thousands of birds in recent weeks as avian flu spreads across seven provinces of the country, officials have reported. More than 1,000 wild birds, mostly geese, have been found dead in the Mighan wetland in central Iran, the environmental protection organisation told state news agency IRNA on Monday. IRNA said ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Head of Iran Veterinary Organization Mehdi Khalaj announced on Sunday that no new suspected case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus has been reported and the country has been declared free of the disease. "With the imposition of strict sanitary and quarantine conditions and the support of governors and officials of the ...