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Bird flu raging uncontrolled in neighbouring Bangladesh was proving to be a continuing threat to Tripura, where culling was under way after the outbreak of the H5N1 virus in the State. "Even if we cull all our birds within a five km radius of the disease-hit areas, bird-flu affected areas …
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Culling began today in bird-flu hit Nadilag and its surrounding areas of West Tripura district as the state government said neighbouring Bangladesh could be the possible source of infection. As the H5N1 virus was confirmed in blood samples of dead birds from Nadilag village by the High Security Animal Diseases …
AGARTALA: The Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) have launched full-scale culling at Ladilak and its adjacent villages in Bishalgarh subdivision in Tripura today. As of now, over 1,000 chicks and ducks were culled at 11 designated places across the subdivision, said Ashudev Das, SDM (Bishalgarh) here on Sunday. He said that …
The state animal resources department is struggling to arrange the required manpower to carry out fresh culling and mop-up operations in three Bird Flu-affected districts. State ARD officials said fresh culling of chickens was ordered in Birbhum, Burdwan and Murshidabad after Central ARD officials found that many chickens were roaming …
Bird flu was reported in a new area in the virus-hit West Tripura district as culling operations began today to kill 60,000 birds in eight Gram Panchayat areas. Bird flu virus was detected in blood samples of dead birds from Nadilag village of Bishalgarh subdivision at the High Security Animal …
Personnel of Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) have launched full scale culling of chicks and ducks at different areas including Haticherra in West Tripura district following confirmation of the deadly avian influenza. According to the plan, the culling operation will continue for five days to eliminate more than 55,000 chicks and …
After a fresh outbreak of avian flu in the West Tripura district of Mohanpur, 20 kilometres from Agartala, the state authorities have ordered a culling operation from today, at the same time announcing stringent measures to check import and movement of chicken and other birds to and within the state. …
The Tripura Government today asked the Animal Husbandry Department to start culling operations in eight villages under west Tripura from tomorrow in wake of a fresh outbreak of bird flu. Animal Resource Department Commissioner U Venkateswarlu said that blood samples of affected chicks sent to the High Security Animal Disease …
Personnel of the Rapid Response Team of the Animal Resources Department have fanned out across eight gram panchayat areas of West Tripura district where culling will begin tomorrow in the wake of a fresh bird-flu attack, the second time in a month, in the State. An estimated 60,000 birds would …
Routine sampling of blood and faecal extracts from backyard poultry in Tripura has detected the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, infecting birds in a village, 130 km from the state capital Agartala. The virus was isolated from Kalachari village in Mohanpur block just before it started to cause largescale …
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 …
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 …
AGARTALA: No fresh positive case of avian flu was reported from anywhere other than Mohanpur area in Dhalai district, said Animal Resource Development (ARD) Minister Aghore Debbarma. The Minister said that the department had collected blood samples from different places till April 13 and sent the collected slides to Bhopal …
The Tripura Government is continuing the surveillance operations throughout the State even though no fresh cases of bird flu have been detected after conclusion of the culling operations in Kamalpur subdivision of Dhallai district yesterday. This was stated by Tripura Animal Resource Minister Aghor Debbarma at a press meet at …
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Nearly a month after four million birds culled, a fresh outbreak of avian influenza hit West Bengal's Murshidabad district early last month. The reappearance of the virus (see
