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| Emergency plans in West Bengal |
| Villages are being quarantined and masks being given to villagers as part of the efforts to contain the deadly virus.
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| INDIA
, 14-January-2008
2:10:15 AM |
| Bird flu may have resurfaced in India, this time in West Bengal's Birbhum district. At least ten thousand birds have died in just one village, Margram, over the past ten days.
While the entire state remains on alert, personnel from the Centre's Animal husbandry department are in the area to assess the situation and advise residents.
The state government is also preparing for culling in Birbhum, where the movement of poultry has been restricted. Three lakh birds will be culled in the next ten days over an area of ten gram panchayats.
Villages are being quarantined and masks being given to villagers as part of the efforts to contain the deadly virus.
The state medical authorities however, say there is no confirmation whether this is the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus as laboratory reports are yet to come in.
District Magistrate Tapan Kumar Shome said ''all departments concerned have been alerted. The villagers have been asked not to sell or buy chicken. They have also been asked to wear masks and cover their hands and legs while feeding birds.''
Though neither the district administration nor the veterenary department confirmed an outbreak of birdflu, a preliminary report from the High Security Animal Husbandry Laboratory in Bhopal has apparently confirmed the disease affecting poultry there, official sources said.
Villagers of Margram of Rampurhat II block had informed the village panchayat that the birds they reared were dying following a brief period of drowsiness.
When the number increased rapidly in the last week, the district asdministration took up the matter seriously.
Neighbouring Bangladesh is still reeling under bird flu with around 21 of the country's 64 districts affected by the deadly virus. (With PTI inputs)
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