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WHO Guidelines on Zoonosis
The World Health Organisation, United Nations Environment Programme and the World Organisation for Animal Health laid down fresh guidelines to reduce the risk of transmission of zoonotic pathogens to humans in food production. Guidelines Suspension of trade in live caught wild animals of mammalian species for food or breeding. To shut down food markets that ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: Animal Health • Bird Flu • Global spread of H5N1 • Influenza • Pathogens • SARS • Swine Flu • United Nations Environment Program • World Health Organisation (WHO) • Zoonosis
Second Wave of Bird Flu in Himachal Pradesh
In January 2021, Bird Flu was confirmed among the migratory water birds at Pong Dam Lake Wildlife Sanctuary. The disease then killed more than 5,000 birds. It was contained in February 2021. However, it has resurfaced since late March. What is the issue? Recently, around 99 birds were found dead at Pong Dam Lake. The ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Avian influenza • Bird Flu • H5N1 • H5N8 • Pong Dam • Ramsar site • Ramsar Wetland site
GoI sets up control room to control spread of Bird Flu
The Department of Animal Husbandry has set up a control room after confirmation of Bird Flu in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Himachal Pradesh. What are the functions of the control room? The control room will watch the situation and take stock on daily basis of the preventive and control measures undertaken by the respective ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2021
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Avian Flu • Bird Flu • H5N1 • H5N8 • Influenza • World Health Organisation (WHO)
Bird Flu outbreak in India
The Bird Flu in India has been reported in wild Geese in Himachal Pradesh, ducks in Kerala, crows in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Also, in Haryana more than one lakh poultry birds have died mysteriously in the last few days. The Kerala Government recently declared Avian Influenza as State Disaster. In Kerala more than 1,700 ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2021
Category: Environment Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Avian influenza • Bird Flu • H5N1 • H5N8 • Influenza • Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 • Transmission and infection of H5N1 • World Health Organisation (WHO)
Avian Flu in Rajasthan
The Jhalawar town of Rajasthan has imposed a curfew in one-kilo metre radius after it was confirmed that fifty crows died of bird flu. What is the issue? Why did birds die in Rajasthan? Around fifty crows died in the Radi ke Balaji temple in Jhalawar town on December 25, 2020. The Animal Husbandry department ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: Environment Current Affairs • India Nation & States Current Affairs • States Current Affairs
Topics: avian botulism • Avian Flu • Avian influenza • Bird Flu • Influenza • Sambhar lake