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Conduct sero survey of poultry birds: Haryana to district-level vet officers

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A DAY after amassing mass samples of useless poultry birds for ruling out the opportunity of chook flu, the Haryana animal husbandry and dairying division Sunday issued an alert instructing all of the district-level veterinary officers to conduct sero survey of the poultry birds of their respective areas.
The sero survey contains extraction of blood samples, nozzle samples and samples of the waste of birds from totally different areas.
The alert was issued following the demise of 1000’s of birds in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Dr Anil Banwala, deputy director, animal husbandry and dairying division, mentioned, “We have issued the alert following the reported death of thousands of birds in different parts of India. We have been conducting sero survey for the last many years. But today a strict advisory was issued to conduct the survey in all the districts. The forest and wildlife department was also alerted about taking care of migratory birds at the selected places.”
Lakhs of poultry birds had been discovered useless within the final couple of days at Barwala close to Panchkula. On Saturday, a high-level crew collected the samples and despatched them to the Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (RDDL), Jalandhar.
Panchkula Deputy Commissioner Mukesh Kumar Ahuja mentioned, “The report of the samples is expected to come tomorrow night. We cannot make any comment on the possibility of bird flu at this stage. Indeed, this time the mortality rate of poultry birds in Barwala area is abnormal.”
There are round 110 poultry farms within the Barwala belt of Panchkula.
The mass mortality of poultry birds was reported in round two dozen poultry farms. This has been happening since December 5.
Although senior officers declined to report any signs of chook flu, they mentioned quite a bit will depend upon the findings of RDDL, Jalandhar. The laboratory takes 48 to 72 hours for releasing the forensic outcomes.
The RDDL, Jalandhar, is without doubt one of the prime vet laboratories to determine any sort of virus, together with chook flu within the birds, after High Security Animal Disease Laboratory, Bhopal.