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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announces that more than 47 million chickens and turkeys have died this year of H5N1 bird flu or related culling in the United States, amid the deadliest outbreak of the disease in the country since 2015.
2022-10-18

Namibia bans all imports of poultry and poultry products from South Africa due to an outbreak of avian influenza that was detected there.
2021-05-17

Russia reports their first case of human transmission of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu in seven workers at a poultry farm in the southern part of the country.
2021-02-20

Hong Kong suspends the import of poultry meat and products from bird flu-affected areas in South Korea, Germany and Poland due to spread of highly pathogenic H5N8 in those areas.
2021-02-19

Iraq reports an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu in the city of Samarra.
2021-01-20

South Korea issues a 48-hour standstill order on all poultry farms across the country following a series of highly pathogenic bird flu (H5N8) cases.
2020-12-12

The Japanese Agricultural Ministry reports new cases of a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza (H5N8) at poultry farms in Saiki, Oita and Kinokawa, Wakayama. Authorities have started culling 56,000 chickens at the farm in Saiki as well as about 67,000 chickens at the farm in Kinokawa.
2020-12-10

South Korea's Agriculture Ministry reports the first case of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza among domestic poultry at a duck farm in the city of Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province.
2020-11-28

Afghanistan's first female Air Force pilot Niloofar Rahmani files for asylum in the United States.
2016-12-25

Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong ban poultry imports from the Australian state of Victoria while Japan bans imports from the whole of Australia following an outbreak of a low pathogenic form of the avian influenza (separate from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain).
2012-02-1