No mention of what they think "the disease" is, but H5N1 must be a consideration. It seems that mosquito borne diseases are also possible.
Crow deaths put poultry under scanner
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Jamshedpur civil surgeon Vibha Sharan held a meeting with an expert team from New Delhi-based National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) on Sunday on the precautionary measures that need to be adopted in the context of mysterious crow deaths in the region.
The meet, also attended by other health department officials, concluded that it was important to keep an eye on poultry products.
During the meeting, the NICD team presented slide shows to apprise how humans could protect themselves from the contagious disease.
While talking to The Telegraph, Sharan said: ?Though there is no precedence of the disease spreading directly from a bird to a human body, poultry products are susceptible to the malady which is triggering deaths of the flying scavengers. So, poultry products need to be examined properly,? said Sharan, adding there was no need for residents to panic.
The experts urged the civil surgeon to ensure that those who deal with poultry inform the district health department or the animal husbandry department if they record premature death of chickens or observe anything unusual about them.
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Conservator of forest and in-charge of divisional forest office, Dhalbhum, Sanjiv Kumar said another three-member team which had come to the steel city from Indian Vetenary Research Institute, Bhopal, on Saturday, had collected about a dozen mosquitoes of various species from those places where crow deaths had been reported.
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Meanwhile, deaths of parrots were also reported from various places on the outskirts of the city including, Mango, Karandih, Azadnagar and Parsudih.
Several residents have informed about the deaths of the talking birds to local media during the last 48 hours.
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Crow deaths put poultry under scanner
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Jamshedpur civil surgeon Vibha Sharan held a meeting with an expert team from New Delhi-based National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) on Sunday on the precautionary measures that need to be adopted in the context of mysterious crow deaths in the region.
The meet, also attended by other health department officials, concluded that it was important to keep an eye on poultry products.
During the meeting, the NICD team presented slide shows to apprise how humans could protect themselves from the contagious disease.
While talking to The Telegraph, Sharan said: ?Though there is no precedence of the disease spreading directly from a bird to a human body, poultry products are susceptible to the malady which is triggering deaths of the flying scavengers. So, poultry products need to be examined properly,? said Sharan, adding there was no need for residents to panic.
The experts urged the civil surgeon to ensure that those who deal with poultry inform the district health department or the animal husbandry department if they record premature death of chickens or observe anything unusual about them.
...
Conservator of forest and in-charge of divisional forest office, Dhalbhum, Sanjiv Kumar said another three-member team which had come to the steel city from Indian Vetenary Research Institute, Bhopal, on Saturday, had collected about a dozen mosquitoes of various species from those places where crow deaths had been reported.
...
Meanwhile, deaths of parrots were also reported from various places on the outskirts of the city including, Mango, Karandih, Azadnagar and Parsudih.
Several residents have informed about the deaths of the talking birds to local media during the last 48 hours.
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