Insights and Stories on Virus

Brazil detects first Newcastle disease case in poultry since 2006

Jul. 18, 2024 at 9:46 am CDT

Brazilian authorities are taking measures to contain an outbreak of Newcastle disease in the country's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, according to a statement from local meat lobby ABPA on Thursday.

Sweden reports bird flu outbreak as disease spreads

Jan. 9, 2024 at 10:14 am CST

By Reuters

China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu

Jun. 1, 2021 at 7:02 pm CDT

By Dominique Patton Hallie Gu

G4 swine flu virus not new, China says

Jul. 6, 2020 at 11:46 pm CDT

By Reuters

Food exporters to China asked to declare produce coronavirus-free

Jun. 19, 2020 at 10:20 am CDT

By Dominique Patton

U.S. to begin testing sick and dead pigs for African swine fever

May. 16, 2019 at 4:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture within weeks will begin testing sick and dead pigs for a hog virus that has killed herds across Asia in an effort to minimize devastation if the disease enters the United States, the agency said on Thursday. Increased testing aims to […]

By Tom Polansek

Piles of pigs: Swine fever outbreaks go unreported in rural China

Mar. 20, 2019 at 2:37 pm CDT

Baoding, China | Reuters — When pigs on the Xinda Husbandry breeding farm in northern China began dying in growing numbers in early January, it looked increasingly likely that the farm had been struck by the much feared African swine fever, an incurable disease that has spread rapidly across the […]

By Dominique Patton

One Alberta PED case deemed ‘false positive’

Mar. 4, 2019 at 5:02 pm CST

The third of four reported on-farm outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea in Alberta so far this year can now be marked as a negative. The provincial government and hog producer agency Alberta Pork on Monday announced the first of two cases reported Friday was in fact a “false positive.” Specifically, […]

By GFM Staff