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The State Veterinary Department today clarified that it has been working as per the instructions issued by the Union Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Department in matters of bird flu outbreak. It needs mention here that a news item published in a section of the press carried a news item, quoting …
Dec. 19: Reports of more chicken deaths from Gajole block reached the authorities in Malda town today when they were planning to wrap up the culling operation in bird flu-hit Narhatta. Gram panchayat pradhan Sahanur Biswas said 6,000 chickens had died in Gajole.
GUWAHATI, Dec 19: Although culling operations are over in various parts of the state, Asom is concentrating on reducing bird flu infection risk in humans as cases of its relapse have been reported. Such cases had been reported from Barpeta district where culling operations formally got over, official sources said …
The avian flu outbreak in Assam has put Haryana on high alert, especially as migratory birds come calling to the lush green bird sanctuaries at Sultanpur and Bhindawas. The wildlife wing of the Forest Department has launched a survey of migratory birds in these bird sanctuaries to check any threat …
Gurgaon: After reports of bird flu from Assam and West Bengal, a team of veterinary doctors has started collecting blood samples to test for the disease in migratory birds at the Sultanpur Lake and Bhindawas in Haryana. A medical team, led by Dr Kusum Lata and other veterinary doctors, and …
Dec. 18: State animal resources development minister Anisur Rahman asked the people in the state to "learn to live with bird diseases". Mr Rahman feels that in a country like India, outbreak of bird flu is quite but natural and the government also cannot ask the people to stop farming …
JORHAT, Dec 18: The government directive banning movement of all poultry products including chicken feed has caught poultry farmers in the State between the devil and the deep sea. In those districts where the deadly H5N1 virus has surfaced, the poultry is killed either by the flu or by subsequent …
DIBRUGARH, Dec 18: The ongoing culling operation will end here tomorrow. The rapid response teams have 12,000 birds till yesterday since they started their work on December 12. Talking to The Sentinel, the district veterinary officer Dr Manik Das said that 25 teams are in action in 22 municipal wards …
GUWAHATI, Dec 16: With more reports of unnatural death of birds coming from various parts of the State, the avian influenza seems to have gone out control of the State Veterinary Department that could not meet the December 16 deadline for completion of culling operation set by the Union Veterinary …
The Malda district administration has been told to start culling chickens in Englishbazar block after reports confirmed the presence of the avian flu virus in dead birds, samples of which had been sent to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal. The Bengal animal resources development (ARD) department received …
Bird Flu has hit the state again. This time, it has come back to Malda. Samples of dead birds collected from Malda sent to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal yesterday have tested H5N1 positive. The Centre today apprised the state animal resources development department (ARD) of the …
In the midst of a severe outbreak of avian flu, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has revealed the realities of crowded and filthy chicken and egg factory farms along with a report linking these conditions to the outbreak of Bird Flu. Leading health experts
Culling operations for creating bird-free zones have been completed in three locations of the State. Bird-free zones are sought to be created in an area of three-kilometre radius around the places from where occurrence of bird flu is reported. So far nine locations in six districts of the State have …
SHILLONG: The Animal Husbandry and Veterinary (AH&V;) Department has begun spraying of disinfectants, including sodium hypochloride, in the villages of Ri-Bhoi district bordering Assam, where at least 1100 birds have been culled as a precautionary measure against bird flu. The State Government would pay Rs 75 and Rs 35 for …
Over 500 chickens have died since yesterday morning in Budhia village of Malda, even as the district administration has sent blood samples of dead birds to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal for tests. Hasnara Begum, the Narhatta gram panchayat member, said the chicken deaths have created panic …
SURI: Health authorities and animal resources development (ARD) department officials in Birbhum are dreading another bird flu outbreak in the district after abnormal poultry bird deaths were reported from neighbouring Malda district. The health authorities have already instructed the medical superintendents of district hospitals to keep medicine and other equipment …
Has the state learnt any lesson from the previous bird flu outbreak that was termed worst ever in the country? Well, apparently the answer seems a big No. For the animal resources development department (ARD) officials took six days to visit the villages in Malda, where above average mortality of …
Culling of birds continued in Meghalaya for the second day today as reports on the tests of blood samples of birds from Assam-Meghalaya border villages in Ri Bhoi district were yet to reach the State capital. To prevent spread of the H5NI virus from bird flu-hit Assam, the State Veterinary …
Even as the dreaded Avian Influenza (H5N1 strain) has come back to haunt India, particularly through the recent outbreak in Assam, the Chilika lagoon has been included in a multi-centre study aiming to identify sources of the killer virus. The first of its kind initiative carried forward through an international …
