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Bangladesh authorities trying to combat bird flu
Bangladesh authorities are struggling to combat deadly bird flu, it was announced here Sunday.
The virus, first detected in a farm near the capital Dhaka, has so far infected more than 40 farms in 11 districts.
Private Indian news channel 'Zeenews' quoted government spokesman Abdul Motalib as confirming in Dhaka that authorities have culled 151,000 birds.
"The situation is not grave yet. But with limited technical men and working seven days a week, we have been struggling to combat the deadly disease," he said.
lphamari district was the latest to be infected with the deadly virus yesterday. A total of 3,137 chickens and ducks were culled.
The disease was first identified in Bangladesh in late March after samples from a farm near the capital, Dhaka, tested positive for the deadly h5n1 strain of bird flu.
So far there have been no reports of human infection in the South Asian state.
But the h5n1 strain has killed at least 175 people since late 003, most of them in Southeast Asia, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Bangladesh is home to hundreds of thousands of poultry farms employing more than a million people.
It had already banned imports of live birds from more than 50 countries, including neighboring India and Myanmar, after outbreaks were detected there.
New Delhi, May 14, IRNA
Bangladesh-Bird flu
http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-16/0705144849125552.htm
Bangladesh-Bird flu
http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-16/0705144849125552.htm
Bangladesh authorities are struggling to combat deadly bird flu, it was announced here Sunday.
The virus, first detected in a farm near the capital Dhaka, has so far infected more than 40 farms in 11 districts.
Private Indian news channel 'Zeenews' quoted government spokesman Abdul Motalib as confirming in Dhaka that authorities have culled 151,000 birds.
"The situation is not grave yet. But with limited technical men and working seven days a week, we have been struggling to combat the deadly disease," he said.
lphamari district was the latest to be infected with the deadly virus yesterday. A total of 3,137 chickens and ducks were culled.
The disease was first identified in Bangladesh in late March after samples from a farm near the capital, Dhaka, tested positive for the deadly h5n1 strain of bird flu.
So far there have been no reports of human infection in the South Asian state.
But the h5n1 strain has killed at least 175 people since late 003, most of them in Southeast Asia, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Bangladesh is home to hundreds of thousands of poultry farms employing more than a million people.
It had already banned imports of live birds from more than 50 countries, including neighboring India and Myanmar, after outbreaks were detected there.