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8000 chickens culled
Thu, Feb 3rd, 2011 5:21 pm BdST
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Kishoreganj, Feb 3 (bdnews24.com) ? Some 8,000 chickens of a poultry farm, infected with the H5N1 virus, in Kishoreganj have been culled.
The culled chickens, from Mozammel Haque's poultry farm at Bagadia village of Sadar Upazila, were buried on Thursday noon under the supervision of the district livestock department.
District livestock officer A S M Naushad Hossain told bdnews24.com that they took the step to check the spread of the disease, which was a subtype of the Influenza A virus and could cause illness in humans and many other animals.
The bird flu infection was confirmed when the livestock department sent a sample of the tissue to the Central Diseases Investigation Laboratory in Dhaka on Wednesday after some of the chickens of the farm had died...
8000 chickens culled
Thu, Feb 3rd, 2011 5:21 pm BdST
Dial 2000 from your GP mobile for latest news
Kishoreganj, Feb 3 (bdnews24.com) ? Some 8,000 chickens of a poultry farm, infected with the H5N1 virus, in Kishoreganj have been culled.
The culled chickens, from Mozammel Haque's poultry farm at Bagadia village of Sadar Upazila, were buried on Thursday noon under the supervision of the district livestock department.
District livestock officer A S M Naushad Hossain told bdnews24.com that they took the step to check the spread of the disease, which was a subtype of the Influenza A virus and could cause illness in humans and many other animals.
The bird flu infection was confirmed when the livestock department sent a sample of the tissue to the Central Diseases Investigation Laboratory in Dhaka on Wednesday after some of the chickens of the farm had died...
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