A retrospective study was performed to assess the mortality rates and clinical signs in commercial and backyard chickens naturally infected with the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus in Bangladesh. All of the 33 commercial and 25 backyard farms, recorded during the first wave of HPAI outbreaks (January to November 2007) in Bangladesh, were enrolled in this study. The farm prof...

Objective: To identify the socioeconomic factors in Tepecoacuilco, Guerrero that favored food productionand family income improves their security via backyard poultry projects.Methodology: 31 families with projects for chicken meat and egg production were surveyedand information complemented two participatory workshops.Results: The average area of backyards per was 48.27 m2 25.3 out ofthem used...

The present study was carried out to detect the circulating Newcastle disease virus (NDV) from various field outbreaks in Assam during 2018-2021. Nine hundred ninety-two clinical and post mortem samples were collected backyard commercial poultry subjected molecular detection by Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR). NDV could be detected 445 (n=757, 58.78%) tissue 53 (n=235, ...