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'India's bird flu fight hit by bad samples Reuters?Posted online: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 1837 hours ISTMumbai, March 29: India's efforts to contain bird flu in poultry were being hindered by spoiled blood samples, the head of the country's top animal diseases laboratory said on Wednesday.
But authorities have sought to play down the third outbreak, saying it should not be treated as a fresh eruption of cases because the infections reported on Tuesday were from the same area earlier identified as a bird flu zone.
The Bhopal laboratory is the only one in India carrying out tests for the H5N1 strain of bird flu. The facility, manned by 13 researchers, tests some 3,000 animal samples each week.
The virus in the latest outbreak was also suspected to be the H5N1 strain and tests were underway on samples to confirm the type, officials said.
India has culled hundreds of thousands of chickens and monitored thousands of people since February after the first two outbreaks in Maharashtra, but the avian flu resurfaced.
But it has reported no human case.
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza has spread from Asia to the Middle East, Africa and Europe and killed over 100 people, according to the World Health Organisation.
'India's bird flu fight hit by bad samples Reuters?Posted online: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 1837 hours ISTMumbai, March 29: India's efforts to contain bird flu in poultry were being hindered by spoiled blood samples, the head of the country's top animal diseases laboratory said on Wednesday.
But authorities have sought to play down the third outbreak, saying it should not be treated as a fresh eruption of cases because the infections reported on Tuesday were from the same area earlier identified as a bird flu zone.
The Bhopal laboratory is the only one in India carrying out tests for the H5N1 strain of bird flu. The facility, manned by 13 researchers, tests some 3,000 animal samples each week.
The virus in the latest outbreak was also suspected to be the H5N1 strain and tests were underway on samples to confirm the type, officials said.
India has culled hundreds of thousands of chickens and monitored thousands of people since February after the first two outbreaks in Maharashtra, but the avian flu resurfaced.
But it has reported no human case.
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza has spread from Asia to the Middle East, Africa and Europe and killed over 100 people, according to the World Health Organisation.