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It’s bird flu New Delhi, January 15 “Over 3.50 lakh birds in Birbhum and 26,000 in South Dinajpur district will be culled from tomorrow,” animal resources development minister Anisur Rahaman said in Kolkata. Proper burial of carcasses had also been ordered, he told reporters. Following reports of unusual mortality of poultry reported from Birbhum and Dakshin Dinajpur districts on January 11, samples were collected and forwarded to HSADL as per specified regime. One sample from each district of Birbhum and South Dinajpur were found positive for H5N1 virus by the laboratory. Based on the initial assessment of the state government, death of approximately 35,525 poultry in 102 villages of six blocks of Birbhum district and death of 288 poultry in one state poultry farm in Dakshim Dinajpur district has been reported during the past seven days. Animal husbandry officials say that outbreak of the disease appears to be localised only to few blocks in Birbhum and only one farm in Dakshin Dinajpur and there is no report of unusual mortality or sickness in neighbouring area. Meanwhile, the West Bengal government has been requested to take immediate necessary action as per the detailed action plan already intimated in November, 2006. A precautionary measure restricted trade and movement of poultry birds in these districts. The West Bengal government has set up 60 rapid response teams for implementation of action plan in affected areas in Birbhum district. These teams are equipped with necessary protective equipments like masks and gloves 5,000 more personal protective equipment and masks are being made available to the state government today as per their request.
Bhubaneswar, January 15 “Though there was no symptom of flu in the dead birds, we had collected blood sample for laboratory testing,” said Chilika divisional forest officer Abhimanyu Behera. The samples would be sent to the High Security Animal Husbandry Laboratory in Bhopal to ascertain the reason behind the death of the birds, he said. Behera said though bird flu spread in other parts of the country, the Chilika Lake was not affected. “In 2007 also we had sent blood samples of some birds. Those tested negative to H5N1 virus,” he said. Sources said the officials had so far detected death of only 22 migratory birds. — PTI
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