Outbreak

The national capital today continued to reel under the chikungunya outbreak, its worst in the last six years, even as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal made a fervent appeal to all to shun politics and jointly ...

Australia's largest supermarket chains Woolworths and Coles have recalled 30 types of packaged lettuce amid a salmonella outbreak.

Moon Hong-nam, a pastry chef in Seoul, needs at least 15,000 eggs a day to bake cakes, but after South Korea's worst outbreak of bird flu and a surge in the prices of eggs, he ...

China's Xinjiang region has culled more than 55,000 chickens and other poultry following an outbreak of a highly virulent bird flu that has infected 16,000 birds, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Tuesday.

Doctors say that meat need not be entirely cut out of the diet to prevent coronavirus, but consumption of raw meat should definitely be avoided during this time.

Food safety advocates are sounding an alarm at the lack of information being disseminated about an enduring intestinal illness tied to prepackaged salad that has sickened nearly 400 people nationwide.The outbreak of the rare parasite ...

The Japanese government has prohibited moving chickens within a radius of three kms of the outbreak and shipments of another 1.93 million chickens in other areas within 10 kms have been banned.

As many as 15,000 chickens will be culled in Hong Kong to prevent an outbreak of bird flu.

Taiwanese authorities began culling around 120,000 chickens on Friday following the latest outbreak of a less virulent strain of bird flu, one of the island's biggest culls in recent years.

According to recent reports, Taiwan is battling its worst summer outbreak of dengue in over a decade.