After 3,000 birds died in the space of a fortnight, the state government had sent samples of the dead poultry to the high-security Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Bhopal on Thursday. Preliminary reports which came yesterday indicated that the birds died of bird flu.
The reports of a fresh outbreak are a setback to the Government’s efforts to ensure that the virus didn’t spread to new areas. It’s been two months since the first case was reported in West Bengal and culling of birds is still continuing.
Last year, there was a bird flu outbreak in Manipur. The country’s first brush with the virus was in 2006, when a large number of birds were infected in Maharashtra.
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