EghtesadOnline: Thirteen chicken farms have been infected with avian flu since the beginning of the new Iranian year (started March 21), Ali-Safar Makan-Ali, an official with Iran’s Veterinary Organization, said.

EghtesadOnline: The recent avian flu outbreak infecting Iranian poultry farms has been contained and Iran Veterinary Organization has not received any new report of infection in the past two or three weeks.

EghtesadOnline: More than 27 million chickens have been culled since the recent outbreak of avian flu in Iran, chairman of the board of directors at Tehran’s Union of Producers of Egg-Laying Chicken, Nasser Nabipour, Mehr News Agency reported.

EghtesadOnline: The outbreak of avian flu across Iran is posing a new threat.