Maharashtra: Avian flu in poultry birds of 16 districts

The National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal, a nodal physique for testing circumstances of chook flu, on Thursday confirmed that poultry birds (hen) in 16 districts of Maharashtra have died because of Avian Influenza.
Bird flu has been present in poultry birds of Parbahni, Latur, Nanded, Pune, Solapur, Yavatmal, Ahmednagar, Beed, Raigad, Thane, Gondia, Ahmednagar, Hingoli, Satara, Nagpur and Gadhchiroli.
The laboratory knowledgeable the state animal husbandry division that the poultry birds died owing to H5N1 virus — a extremely pathogenic avian influenza that causes extreme respiratory ailments in birds – in all of the 16 districts. A pattern of a lifeless duck from Wardha has additionally examined optimistic for chook flu however with H5N8 pressure.

According to the containment plan, ready by the Union authorities, the native administration will cull poultry birds inside 1-km radius of the actual farm the place birds have died because of Avian Influenza. A surveillance zone, inside a periphery of 10 km, might be created with no birds to be bought or bought on this space.
As a precaution, the actual village the place the affected poultry farm is located, might be declared a prohibited space, stopping entry and exit of anybody, together with native villagers. A medical workforce have to be set as much as look at residents. Of the 30 locations the place culling of poultry birds has been ordered, destruction of poultry, eggs, feed and excreta has been accomplished in 22 areas. As of Thursday, 38,658 bids, 35,146 eggs and 52,684 kg poultry feed have been destroyed.
On Wednesday, 1,040 birds have been discovered lifeless throughout the state. Of them, 932 have been poultry birds. Among the entire variety of lifeless poultry birds, the very best toll was recorded in Yavatmal (390) on Wednesday, adopted by Jalgaon (144), Palghar (69), Nanded (60), Beed (52) Nagpur (44), Amravati (39), Solapur (35), Jalna (34), Raigad (25), Nashik (17), Osmanabad (10), Pune and Ahemdnagar (6) and Parbhani (1).
Since January 8, 13,792 birds have died within the state.