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Shillong, Jan. 16: The East Garo Hills district administration will continue culling for another week even after more than 2,500 chickens were slaughtered. More villagers have come forward to report the disease in the control rooms set up in East Garo Hills after an increase in the compensation for the …
DHENKANAL: The bird flu panic has made its way to the mid-day meal scheme too. Hundreds of students of various primary schools in Dhenkanal district have refused to take eggs in their noon meal. As many as 1,700 schools with 1.10 lakh children come under the Sarva Sikshya Abhiyan in …
Berhampur: With detection of H5N1 avian influenza at two places of Odisha, a Central team on Monday visited the Chilika lake area to study symptoms of bird flu on the migratory birds. The two-member surveillance team observed the behavior of migratory birds in the lake, particularly in the Nalabana, the …
Outbreak of bird-flu and aftermath Shillong: Fresh deaths of domesticated fowls have been reported in the State, even as the culling of birds in a three-kilometre radius of the bird-flu epicentre of Williamnagar in Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills entered its third day on Sunday, an official said. More than 2,321 …
SHILLONG: Culling and mopping operations will continue for the next five days in Meghalaya to contain the spread of bird-flu in East Garo Hills district, official sources said. "Until last evening, 3026 fowls were subjected to hygienic culling by the district administration, even as specialised teams of Rapid Response Teams …
Fresh deaths of domesticated fowls have been reported in Meghalaya, even as the culling of birds in a three-kilometre radius of the bird-flu epicentre of Williamnagar in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills entered its third day Sunday, an official said. More than 2,321 birds, including domesticated fowls, were culled and buried …
Bhubaneswar: In a bid to check spread of bird flu, the Odisha government on Thursday began culling of fowls within three km radius of Keranga in Khurda district as advised by the Centre, official sources said. The culling of poultry has been launched at a private firm in Keranga and …
SHILLONG: The bird flu in East Garo Hills is officially confirmed, revealed the Deputy Commissioner of East Garo Hills, Pravin Bakshi citing the fax message from the sophisticated government run laboratory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Informing this to The Sentinel on Wednesday, the Deputy Commisioner also directed the Special Task …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government on Wednesday ordered culling of poultry birds in a radius of 3 km from Keranga village in Khurda where the first avian influenza positive cases were reported on Sunday. The Fisheries and Animal Husbandry Department said the culling will start with immediate effect. Compensation for the …
Bhubaneswar: Bird flu has been reported from Betanati in Mayurbhanj district and Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district after Keranga in Khurda district. Following the death of large number of crows and poultry, the state government, which has sounded a high alert in the two districts, has sent blood samples of the …
BARIPADA: Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, bordering Jharkhand, has been put on high alert to avoid poultry birds carrying HSN1 virus sneaking in from the neighbouring state, said Mayurbhanj CDVO Nityananda Das on Tuesday. Surveillance has been stepped up in the seven blocks of Raruan, Jashipur, Tiring, Bahalda, Gorumahisani, Saraskana and Jamda …
Around 2,000 poultry birds have died in the past few weeks on a farm in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills district, fuelling fears of bird flu, even as a general alert was sounded in the area, officials said on Monday. A government official said 2,000 chickens died an unnatural death in …
Odisha has alerted all its district authorities in view of the detection of a bird flu case in the state, an official said on Monday. "The government sent samples of around 300 birds, mostly crows and poultry, to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal, during last fortnight after …
Bhubaneswar: Bird flu was detected for the first time in Odisha as the central laboratory confirmed the virus in two dead fowls in Khurda district, official sources said on Monday. The Centre on Sunday communicated to the state about the detection of H5N1 virus in two dead poultry found in …
India has declared itself free from bird flu (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza). The declaration was made here on December 29, 2011, and notified to the OIE (Office International des Epizooties, which later became the World Organisation for Animal Health). However, states have been advised to keep up the vigil, according …
Alarm was raised over a possible outbreak of bird flu following death of over 600 poultry at Ganganagar in Dhalai district in the past three days, official sources said today. Blood samples of infected chickens have been collected for test, while antidote administered to other fowls to arrest the spread …
The government today announced that the country is free of bird flu disease, but continues to keep a watchful eye on vulnerable areas. Bird flu, also know as avian influenza, is a flu that affects birds. The virus that causes the bird infection can mutate to affect humans. "The declaration …
The strain of bird flu that killed a Chinese bus driver won't spread to other people, a health agency said on Monday. The Shenzhen Disease Control Center appealed for calm while officials investigated how the man contracted the H5N1 strain of the virus. Chinese bus driver with bird flu dies …
NEW DELHI: The government today announced that the country is free of bird flu disease, but continues to keep a watchful eye on vulnerable areas. Bird flu, also know as avian influenza, is a flu that affects birds. The virus that causes the bird infection can mutate to affect humans. …
