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| Situation very serious: Buddha |
| Bird flu may have spread to three more districts of West Bengal as culling of poultry was on in the two affected districts of Birbhum and south Dinajp
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| INDIA
, 18-January-2008
9:10:43 AM |
| Bird flu may have spread to three more districts of West Bengal as culling of poultry was on in the two affected districts of Birbhum and south Dinajpur.
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya held an emergency meeting with top officials on Friday in order to decide on the further course of action to be undertaken.
What is being seen, as cause of fresh worry is the fact that an unusually high number of poultry deaths have been reported from the districts of Nadia, Murshidabad and Bardhman.
The state government has been advised to immediately begin culling in these districts and the environment ministry is surveying all wild and migratory birds.
The Chief Minister said that the death of crows and owls in Kolkata's southern and eastern parts on Friday was normal and that there was no cause for panic.
''We will have to kill four lakh birds in the affected districts, Bhattacharjee said, adding the situation was ''very serious''.
The poultry in 5-10 km radius of the affected areas would have to be culled and the process would be completed within seven days, he said.
In Murshidabad, 10,000 chickens have died since Tuesday, in Burdwan 2,000 in the past seven days and in Bankura 400 sick birds were culled on Thursday though bird flu was not confirmed there, reports from the districts said.
In Dakshin Dinajpur district, declared bird flu affected, 6000 chicken have been culled with 19 teams at work at the district headquarters town of Balurghat and villages that fell within a 5-km radius of a government poultry farm.
In Birbhum, another bird flu-hit district, people were resisting the culling operations. The Rampurhat subdivsion was the worst affected, government sources said.
Meanwhile, acting on the health ministry's advice, Tamil Nadu has become the first state to ban the import of poultry products from West Bengal.
On the international front, Qatar has too put a ban on poultry imports from India.
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