Bird Flu spreads to India's Uttar Pradesh state
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Feb 2, IRNA
India-Bird Flu
In Uttar Pradesh the officials have culled thousands of chickens in Varanasi and Shahjahanpur district supplied from West Bengal.
Nearly twenty blood samples of chicken collected at Bareli have been sent to Bhopal laboratory for investigation. The state government has banned the supply of chicken, eggs and all poultry products from West Bengal to the state with immediate effect, All India Radio (AIR) reported here.
The government has alerted all district authorities in view of the outbreak of bird flu in some parts of West Bengal.
The Director General of medical and health of the state Dr L B Prasad has said that all the districts authorities and animal husbandry officials has been sounded across the state to keep close eyes on the poultry products coming from west Bengal.
He said that steps also have been taken to aware people regarding menace of Bird Flu.
The state government has already set up a task force to deal with any eventuality and district authorities particularly eastern part of the state have been asked to keep a close watch on the poultry farms.
As a precautionary step, patrolling has also been intensified in the various bird sanctuaries all over the state where migratory birds flock in this season. Authorities have stopped giving eggs and chicken to animals in Zoos as a precautionary measure.
Meanwhile, reports received from West Bengal where 13 out of 19 districts are in grip of Bird Flu said, the figure for culling poultry was revised to 28 lakh as the avian influenza spread to one block each in Birbhum and Murshidabad districts while Darjeeling reported chicken deaths for the first time.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal government said that compensation would be paid to those whose birds had died or would have to be culled, besides affected egg traders.
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