SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil identified fresh bird flu cases in wild animals, which it said should not have any commercial impact, and is investigating a new potential case on a commercial farm, ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil's vast and diverse geography, with the Amazon to the north, mountain ranges along the Atlantic coast and the Andes to its west, may have helped it avoid the U.S. fate of ...

MONTENEGRO, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian authorities hope to determine by Tuesday whether a confirmed outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza among wild birds in a zoo in the southern state of ...

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian food processor BRF is confident local companies will be able to circumvent chicken trade bans in a matter of days as local authorities have so far been able to control ...

SAO PAULO, May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's Santa Catarina state said it has ruled out an outbreak of bird flu in a commercial chicken farm while the federal government was keeping it on a list of ...

Brazil confirms its first bird flu outbreak on a commercial poultry farm, leading to a 60-day ban on poultry imports from China. The outbreak is in Rio Grande do Sul, a state responsible for 15% of ...

The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot which had only recently been returned to its natural habitat in Brazil have been diagnosed with a lethal, incurable virus, the government said in a ...

BRASILIA, June 4 (Reuters) - Brazil's Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said on Wednesday there were strong indications that the world's biggest chicken exporter had efficiently contained a bird flu ...

Researchers supported by FAPESP have found antibiotic-resistant bacterial clones in wild birds at a rehabilitation center. The identified Escherichia coli clones have been found in community- and ...

In an unprecedented project in the municipality of São Simão, blue-and-yellow macaws born in captivity were trained in free-flight techniques before being introduced into the wild. Traditionally, in ...