The Centre had said that avian influenza or bird flu outbreak has been reported at 12 epicentres in Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.
Over 1.60 lakh birds of five poultry farms in Haryana’s Panchkula district are set to be culled as some poultry samples there have tested positive for the avian flu, Agriculture minister J P Dalal said on Friday.
Samples of three of them were sent for laboratory testing to ascertain the cause of death, they said.
Authorities have already said that so far there was no reported incident of bird death due to bird flu in the union territory.
Avian influenza or bird flu outbreak has been reported in Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh, while Haryana is on high alert.
The Fisheries and Animal Resource Development Department in a statement said that people can consume chicken meat, eggs and other poultry products produced in the state after properly cooking them.
The crows were found dead in the premises of the famous Sun Temple in Modhera village of Mehsana. The carcasses have been sent to a Bhopal-based laboratory to check if they died due to bird flu or some other reason.
According to Swami Ramdev, if you have to protect yourself from bird flu, then it is necessary for you to strengthen your immunity. For this, he suggests consuming the homemade Ayurvedic kadha or decoction along with performing Yogasanas daily.
Allaying all such apprehensions, Giriraj Singh there is no need to panic over reports of bird flu outbreak.
In an official statement, the ministry said in Rajasthan, bird flu is reported in crows in Baran, Kota and Jhalawar district, while Madhya Pradesh also reported the disease in crows in Mandsaur, Indore and Malwa districts.
Hundreds of winter migratory birds including bar-headed goose along with river tern, brown-headed gull, and cormorants were found dead in and around the Pong Dam Sanctuary area.
The doctors said that the risk of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus that causes the bird flu is very rare unless one works in proximity with the infected species of birds.
Rapid response teams, set up by the administration, began culling ducks, hens and other domestic birds in and around a one km radius of the affected areas in Alappuzha and Kottayam districts.
Bird flu is a highly infectious and severe respiratory disease in birds caused by the H5N1 influenza virus, which can occasionally infect humans as well.
The Kerala government on Saturday ordered poultry culling after Bird flu was detected in Parappanangadi. Taking note of the situation officials have deployed squads to cull all poultries.
In less than a week after bird flu was detected in two poultry farms in Vengeri and west Kodiyathoor in Kozhikode district, the disease has been confirmed in Malappuram, which is 47 km away.
Kerala State Animal Husbandry Department held an emergency meeting after a chicken farm and one private nursery in West Kodiyathur and Vengeri were hit by bird flu. The animal husbandry department, however, said that there is no need to panic as the disease is under control.
The Czech Ministry of Agriculture on Monday confirmed the second outbreak of avian influenza this year in the central Czech region of Pardubice. Over 1,00,000 poultry will have to be killed in order to contain the outbreak of the highly pathogenic subtype of H5N8, the ministry said in a statement.
Patna, Mar 14: Nearly 6,000 chickens were culled and a large quantity of eggs destroyed in Bihar's Purnea district in the last five days following an outbreak of bird flu and officials asked to take
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