# bird-flu - Monday 10 January, 2022
# Bird Flu Fears
# Bird Flu Fears
Three outbreaks of bird flu have been detected in the past three months in Ireland.
# bird-flu - Thursday 6 January, 2022
# Bird Flu
# Bird Flu
The risk to the wider public continues to be very low, experts said.
# bird-flu - Wednesday 1 December, 2021
# Bird Flu
# Bird Flu
The risk to humans is considered very low but people are advised not to handle sick or dead wild birds.
# bird-flu - Thursday 11 November, 2021
# White-tailed Sea Eagle
# White-tailed Sea Eagle
It is the same highly pathogenic strain already been detected last week in a peregrine falcon in Co Galway.
# bird-flu - Monday 30 November, 2020
# Avian Influenza
# Avian Influenza
Risk to humans from the virus is considered very low.
# bird-flu - Tuesday 28 April, 2020
# Monaghan
# Monaghan
Half a million hens have been culled as a result of the outbreak.
# bird-flu - Friday 9 February, 2018
# Avian Influenza
# Avian Influenza
The risk to humans is considered to be very low.
# bird-flu - Saturday 4 February, 2017
# Tipperary
# Tipperary
The risk to humans is considered to be very low but the public is advised not to handle sick or dead birds.
# bird-flu - Friday 13 January, 2017
# Wigeon
# Wigeon
The risk to humans is deemed to be “very low”.
# bird-flu - Wednesday 11 January, 2017
# In You Get
# In You Get
The measure was taken to prevent birds from contracting bird flu from wild birds.
# bird-flu - Saturday 31 December, 2016
# Wigeon
# Wigeon
Fears about the infectious virus have been spreading across Europe this year.
# bird-flu - Friday 30 December, 2016
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
The H5N8 virus is highly pathogenic, and has been found across the UK and Europe in recent times.
# bird-flu - Friday 23 December, 2016
# Bird Flu Outbreak
# Bird Flu Outbreak
It’s a precautionary measure after outbreaks of bird flu in the UK.
# bird-flu - Saturday 17 December, 2016
# H5N8
# H5N8
An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N8 (bird flu) has been confirmed in Lincolnshire.
# bird-flu - Monday 28 November, 2016
# Netherlands
# Netherlands
The birds were culled in the space of three days in Sweden and the Netherlands following a resurgence in the virus across Europe.
# bird-flu - Tuesday 30 December, 2014
# Bird Flu
# Bird Flu
The birds had been imported from mainland China and one woman has been hospitalised.
# bird-flu - Monday 17 November, 2014
# For Ducks Sake
# For Ducks Sake
The Agriculture Minister said poultry owners need to be vigilant.
# What The Duck
# What The Duck
However, the risk to the public is said to be “very low”.
# bird-flu - Wednesday 16 April, 2014
# H5 Strain
# H5 Strain
No cases of humans contracting the disease who have eaten poultry or eggs have been recorded.
# bird-flu - Wednesday 12 February, 2014
# H7N9
# H7N9
A 65-year-old man was hospitalised after developing a fever and a cough.
# bird-flu - Saturday 1 February, 2014
# Prime Numbers
# Prime Numbers
Plus: What percentage of people aged 50 and older in Ireland are obese?
# bird-flu - Tuesday 28 January, 2014
# Off The Menu
# Off The Menu
Up to 20,000 chickens were killed after the deadly virus was found in poultry imported from mainland China.
# bird-flu - Wednesday 8 January, 2014
# H5N1
# H5N1
Health officials have stressed that the risk to the population is extremely low.
# bird-flu - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
# Bird Flu
# Bird Flu
The WHO say that so far there is no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission.
# bird-flu - Thursday 14 November, 2013
# Health
# Health
A 20-year-old woman was found with the virus after presenting to hospital with flu-like symptoms.
# bird-flu - Monday 19 August, 2013
# Bird Flu
# Bird Flu
The boy had carried dead and sick bird from a cage for food preparation before he became ill.
# bird-flu - Wednesday 7 August, 2013
# H7N9
# H7N9
Scientists have long feared the virus would mutate into a form that transmits easily from person to person.
# bird-flu - Monday 20 May, 2013
# Healthscare
# Healthscare
‘Influenza viruses constantly reinvent themselves’, says the head of the WHO. ‘No one can predict the future course.’
# bird-flu - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
# China
# China
Police in China’s southwest city of Guiyang detained three people for claiming H7N9 had been found in a poultry market, according to police.
# bird-flu - Monday 7 January, 2013
# Health
# Health
A man also passed away from the H1N1 influenza strain in Jordan over the weekend.
# bird-flu - Wednesday 4 April, 2012
# Bird Flu
# Bird Flu
A temporary exclusion zone is lifted after further tests on a flock of game birds in Clonakilty show bird flu had not spread.
# bird-flu - Monday 2 April, 2012
# Bird Flu
# Bird Flu
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.
# bird-flu - Saturday 31 March, 2012
# Avian Flu
# Avian Flu
The Department of Agriculture said today that there was no update as yet as to the cause of the outbreak in Cork.
# bird-flu - Friday 30 March, 2012
# Bird Flu
# Bird Flu
The birds on the affected premises are being slaughtered today.
# bird-flu - Friday 17 February, 2012
# Bird Flu
# Bird Flu
Researchers in the US and the Netherlands have developed new H5N1 strains which are more transmissible than the natural version.
# bird-flu - Thursday 22 December, 2011
# Bioterrorism
# Bioterrorism
The US government fears that details on a lab-made version of bird flu could be used by terrorists for biological warfare.
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