Bird flu: Tripura, Mizoram tighten vigil, Bird flu confirmed in Tripura's Dhalai district

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Bird flu: Tripura, Mizoram tighten vigil

http://www.hindu.com/2007/08/06/stories/2007080657900100.htm

Gargi Parsai





NEW DELHI:

Even as the Tripura and Mizoram Governments tightened vigil along their borders after ?unusual mortality? in poultry population last week, the Union Department of Animal Husbandry said over 3.40 lakh poultry birds were culled in Manipur.

Though the culling operation was over, more stamping out of birds was done during the clean-up and disinfection operations through the municipal areas.

The Central Rapid Response Teams were closely combing the 5-km radius around Chinmeirong village near Imphal.

The Tripura Government is reported to have asked the Border Security Force to seal the border with Bangladesh to prevent the movement of poultry.

 

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Re: Bird flu: Tripura, Mizoram tighten vigil

Re: Bird flu: Tripura, Mizoram tighten vigil

Tripura birds fall to mystery disease
2 Apr 2008, 1655 hrs IST,IANS
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mystery_disease_kills_birds/articleshow/2920450.cms

AGARTALA

About 3,000 birds, including poultry fowl, have died due to some mysterious disease during the past one week in Tripura, officials said on Wednesday.

Villagers said more than 3,000 chickens, ducks, crows and other birds have first fallen sick and then died at bordering Kamalpur, 160 km north of here.

A team of doctors of animal resource development department (ARDD), led by its deputy director Chandan Kumar Roy, has rushed to the area and started collecting blood samples of the birds.

"Several dogs and five jackals, which had consumed the affected birds, were also found dead," the villagers said.

"We don't think the birds have died of bird flu. We suspect it to be Ranikhet disease. However, we would send the blood sample to national laboratories for confirmation," said Ashim Burman, director ARDD.

Ranikhet is a highly infectious and fatal viral disease, which attacks poultry of all ages. It is also known as newcastle disease.

Earlier, the detection of the H5N1 virus in chickens at the small poultry farms in Moulabibazar district of Bangladesh, opposite to Kamalpur, had prompted the Tripura government to take measures, including sealing of borders, to stop the movement of poultry and poultry products between the two countries.

"We have asked the BSF to maintain a strict vigil along the Indo-Bangla border to prevent illegal trade of poultry and poultry products from Bangladesh," Burman said.

The state forest department has also asked its officials to keep a watch on Tripura's 10 big water bodies where migratory birds from India and abroad are currently breeding.

 

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Bird flu confirmed in Tripura's Dhalai district

Bird flu confirmed in Tripura's Dhalai district

Bird flu confirmed in Tripura's Dhalai district

Dhalai, Apr 6 (ANI): Authorities in Tripura on Sunday confirmed the presence of avian influenza virus in the Kamalpur area of Dhalai district.​

Authorities in Tripura on Sunday confirmed the presence of avian influenza virus in the Kamalpur area of Dhalai district.

The Bhopal's High Security Animal Disease Laboratory has found that the samples positive.

Culling operations are likely to be started as and when the directives are issued. (ANI)

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