Astral Foods Ltd., one of South Africa’s biggest poultry producers by revenue, will start vaccinating chickens against bird ...

Without protocol reforms, mass vaccinations of the national flock will be unlikely. Astral Foods became the first broiler ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

These so-called pandemic vaccine viruses are an essential line of defense against the threat of an avian flu pandemic. They can be used to create vaccines to help reduce severe illness.

Following a prolonged but ultimately successful application process, South Africa’s largest poultry company has become the ...

The Department of Agriculture has issued its first-ever permit to vaccinate poultry against highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

At first, the monovalent influenza A (H5N8) vaccine will be tested in two doses, 21 days apart, in adults aged 18–59.

"Astral Foods is advocating for government support to expand its bird flu vaccination programme while urging the finalisation ...

The latest edition of Poultry World is available online. In this edition we visit a former investment banker who had built a ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a potential plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will potentially announce a plan to vaccinate poultry against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), according to media outlet Reuters.