A week after declaring Kamalpur subdivision avian flu- free zone, fresh outbreak of the deadly disease has been reported at Mohanpur and its adjacent villages in West Tripura district. The most affected areas were Kalacherra, Mantala, Bijoynagar, Mohinipur, Mohanpur, Ishanpur and Hejamar, close to Bangladesh. "The Bhopal-based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory confirmed the outbreak at Mohanpur where eight chicks died mysteriously recently', said U Vankeswarlu, State's principal secretary of Animal Resource Development (SRD) here on Tuesday. He said that all possible steps were taken to confine the avian flu. "A meeting will be held today with Panchayat representatives to chalk out preventive measures at the grass root level', he said. "We are taking all out efforts to stop spread of bird flu. Already concerned personnel of Rapid Reaction Teams have swung into action and they will start isolating the affected areas,' he said. He informed that culling operation would begin in full swing from Thursday. "Anywhere a chicken or duck dies mysteriously, then blood sample is collected and sent to Bhopal laboratory for testing. Everyday several samples are being sent to the laboratory. According to Venkateswarlu, the bird flu has spread to Tripura from Bangladesh. As part of precautionary measures, movement of chicks and eggs from Bangladesh had been banned. Ban has been imposed even on poultry farming in entire Kamalpur subdivision for the next six months. It may be recalled that a total of 40,288 birds were culled from April 8 to April 14 while an amount of Rs 16.01 lakh was paid as compensation in Kamalpur in the wake of outbreak of avain flu.