Even as the Tripura Government was fighting bird flu menace, the fresh outbreak of the disease was reported from Sidhai Mohanpur area, about 25 km from here. The area falls under the Indo-Bangladesh border and incidents of death of chickens and a few other birds were being reported from the area. However, official confirmation of the dreaded avian disease was still awaited though sources in the Animal Husbandry Department have found the presence of H5N1 virus in the blood samples of the sick birds. Official sources said a high-level meeting was on in the Secretariat chaired by the Animal Husbandry Department Commissioner and attended by West District administrative, police and medical officers. Soon after the meeting, a team will go the affected area. The State for the first time witnessed the outbreak of bird flu Kamalpur subdivision of Dhalai district recently. The government has also issued a ban on the import of poultry and its products from Bangladesh, where 47 districts were still affected with the disease.