Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus H5N1 is now endemic in South-East Asia but HPAI control methods differ between countries. A widespread HPAI vaccination campaign that started at the end of 2005 in Viet Nam resulted in the cessation of poultry and human cases, but in 2006/2007 severe HPAI outbreaks re-emerged. In this study we investigated the pattern of this first post-vaccination...

Banned Antibiotic in Poultry Feed The U.S. FDA banned the use of fluoro­ quinolone antibiotics in poultry production in 2005 in part due to increased resistance to the drugs among Campylobacter bacteria. But a new study finds evidence that these antibiotics are still being used or are inadvertently contaminating poultry feed. The authors analyzed samples of U.S. and Chinese feather meal, a by­p...

A wide variety of zoonotic disease risks exists in poultry. Popularity of backyard and smaller production flocks is increasing, as is public concern about global poultry disease events. This paper discusses several of the more common poultry zoonotic diseases, their prevalence and presentation in both poultry and humans.

A broad array of HPAI control measures are being considered for the poultry sector in Viet Nam. Because the poor are highly represented in this country’s poultry production, any national strategy for intervention in this sector needs to take careful account of their welfare. The following figure shows that income from poultry production has an important equity effect in the Vietnamese economy, ...

Newcastle disease is one of the most important diseases of poultry. It usually causes a great loss inpoultry industry and domestic village chickens. Since domestic chickens in villages are free ranging for food,the chance of their contact with wild birds that may act as reservoirs is high. To determine the role ofdomestic chickens in the epizootiology of Newcastle disease virus in villages of I...

The maintenance of poultry health is complex and relies on a delicate balance diet. Dietary fiber (DF) is a dietary component has a major influence in this regard. Utilization of fiber in the poultry diet as a supplements play an important role in poultry health as well as poultry production. Nowadays with increasing human population around the world the Utilization of natural source is a marke...

Since intensive poultry production is accompanied by as high as possible densities of birds within buildings, this exposes poultry house workers to elevated concentrations of bioaerosol that is mainly emitted by birds. Exposure to dust containing pathogenic microbial and parasitic agents may cause asthma, asthma-like syndrome, mucous membrane irritation, chronic bronchitis, and allergic alveoli...

Increasing corn production requires a supply chain to channel from farmers consumers. The of as raw material for animal feed in Central Java Province is not yet well managed, because each farmer or business still carried out individually. aim the study was analyze picture based on Food Supply Chain Network and efficiency agribusiness Java. Sampling techniques using proportional random sampling ...

In this study, we compare the level and distribution of genetic variation between South African conserved and village chicken populations using microsatellite markers. In addition, diversity in South African chickens was compared to that of a reference data set consisting of other African and purebred commercial lines. Three chicken populations Venda, Ovambo and Eastern Cape and four conserved ...