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India - Bird flu hits Tripura, R K Nagar farm, 2nd outbreak at Gandhi Gram farm

Ronan Kelly

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Bird flu hit Tripura, Culling begins in R K Nagar firm
By Our Correspondent
Agartala, Feb 18, 2011 : Bird flu hit Tripura triggering large scale culling of the ducks at the premier government poultry farm at R K Nagar. In the past two weeks more than 2100 duck had died in the farm.

Presence of H5N1 virus was confirmed by Belgachhia Regional Animal Diseases Diagnostic Centre, Kolkata. Soon after the report reached here on Thursday, government ordered immediate culling of the bird in the farm from Friday.

State animal resource development minister Aghore Debbarma said, ?In the wake of confirmation of avian influenza strain among the birds culling has begun in R K Nagar poultry farm of Agartala from this morning following. Remaining 250 ducks will be culled during the day maintaining all precautions?.

He said, in the meantime, blood sample has also been sent to Bhopal Animal Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory for further test.

A senior official from Union animal resource ministry Dipankar Roy has also flown to Tripura to review the situation.

It suspected that avian influenza might have reached here from Bangladesh.

In April 2008 more than 30,000 hens, ducks and even wild birds including crows etc had died in Kamalpur subdivision of Dhalai district and some other bordering towns. At that time also bird flu travelled to Tripura from Bangladesh.


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Source: http://news.oneindia.in/2011/02/18/birdfluin-tripura-cullingbegins-aid0126.html

Birdflu in Tripura, culling begins
Friday, February 18, 2011, 15:30 [IST

Agartala, Feb 18 (PTI) At least 3000 poultry, includingchicken and ducks, were today culled in a state-owned poultryand within its three km radius here following outbreak ofbirdflu in Tripura.

State Animal Resource minister Aghor Debbarma told newsmenover two thousand chicken and ducks have died in the areasince February 3 last and blood samples of some of them whichwere sent to Regional Animal Diseases Diagnostic Centre inKolkata tested positive for H5N1 virus...
 
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Source: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110219/jsp/northeast/story_13602369.jsp

Bird flu breaks out in Tripura
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Agartala, Feb. 18: The dreaded avian influenza (H1N1) or bird flu has reappeared in Tripura after a gap of two years.

Fearing rapid escalation of the disease, specialists of the animal resource department today culled 2,500 ducks in the government-run poultry farm at RK Nagar, 8km east of Agartala town. Tomorrow, doctors of the department will fan out all over the state for culling ducks and chicken suspected to be carrying the deadly virus.

The director of the animal resource department, Dr Asish Barman, said over the past fortnight, ducks in the RK Nagar cattle and poultry farm had died intermittently after suffering from high fever.

?Initially, we did not think that it could be bird flu, but when the death toll crossed 50, we sent blood samples of the dead ducks to the animal disease diagnostic laboratory in Bhopal. Yesterday, we received confirmation that it is a fresh outbreak of bird flu,? said Barman, adding that altogether 2,500 ducks have been culled in the RK Nagar poultry farm...
 
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Bird Flu Contained within Agartala Farm

Culling of Birds and Destruction of Egg and Feed Material Ordered


H5 strains of Avian Influenza have been confirmed in the poultry samples collected from Government Duck Farm, R.K. Nagar, Agartala, Tripura.

The samples were forwarded to the ERDDL, Kolkata and High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal for testing. The test conducted at ERDDL, Kolkata and HSADL, Bhopal confirmed that the samples from Government Duck Farm are positive for H5 strain of Avian Influenza.

It has been decided to immediately commence the culling of birds and destruction of eggs and feed material etc. so as to control further spread of the disease without loss of time.

It has also been decided that the entire poultry will be culled within a radius of 3 kms. of the focus of infection viz. State Duck Breeding Farm, R.K. Nagar, Agartala. In addition to the culling strategy , surveillance will be carried out over a further radius up to 10 kilometers.

Surveillance throughout the State is being intensified to monitor further spread of infection, if any.

State Government has been asked to furnish a daily report on the control and containment operations to the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries in the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Centre has advised that a series of strategic actions are required to be taken immediately in the above area by the Animal Husbandry and Public Health Departments. These include declaration of infected and surveillance areas, ban on movement of poultry and its products in the infected area/closure of poultry and egg markets and shops within a radius of 10 kms. from the infected site, ban on movement of farm personnel, restricting access to wild and stray birds; restricting access to the infected premises; destruction of birds; disposal of dead birds and infected materials; clean-up and disinfection followed by sealing of the premises and issue of sanitization certificate; post operations surveillance; imposition of legislative measures etc. along with necessary measures laid down in the Contingency Plan (2005) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.

-2- As regards compensation for loss of poultry on account of culling and destruction of birds, the rate for payment of compensation has been been indicated to the State Governments. The Government of India has conveyed the decision to share costs of compensation on 50:50 basis with the State Governments and authorized State Governments to utilize funds available with them under the programme of ?Assistance to States for Control of Animal Disease? (ASCAD), which is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme. The payment of compensation should be ensured immediately and simultaneously to culling.

International Organizations will be notified by the Government of India at its level.

MP:SB:CP: avian influenza (18.2.2011)
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Tripura on bird flu alert, central teams arrive
IANS
Posted on Feb 19, 2011 at 04:18pm IST
Agartala: Following an outbreak of the deadly avian influenza, Tripura on Saturday sounded a bird flu alert and intensified surveillance.

Two central government teams comprising scientists and doctors arrived in Tripura on Saturday to assist the state authorities. They are closely monitoring the situation, an official said.

"We have deployed 16 Rapid Response Teams (RRT) in the affected areas of west Tripura district and have asked officials to look for signs of any bird flu outbreak elsewhere," told Tripura animal resource development department (ARDD) joint director Jyotirmoy Chakraborty.

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Chakraborty said: "We will cull over 1,000 more ducks and poultry birds in three villages adjoining RK Nagar farm at the earliest to check the spread of the viral disease."

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The surveillance will cover an area of up to 10 km around the stricken farm

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Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Birdf...ue-to-virulent-H5-strain/Article1-664680.aspx

Birdflu outbreak in Agartala due to virulent H5 strain
Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, February 20, 2011
First Published: 13:52 IST(20/2/2011)
Last Updated: 13:57 IST(20/2/2011)

The birdflu outbreak in Agartala in Tripura has been confirmed to be the highly virulent H5 strain which if transmitted to humans can be deadly. The samples from Government Duck Farm, RK Nagar, Agartala, were sent to High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal and a government laboratory in Kolkata for testing.

The tests confirmed that the samples are positive for H5 strain of Avian Influenza, a senior Health Ministry official said.

According to experts, the H5 strain of bird flu is a highly virulent one and people's immune systems do not yet have any ability to recognise it, leaving humans extremely vulnerable to it.

Luckily, H5N1 is not adapted to human hosts and does not have the genes that would allow it to be passed easily from person to person. But evolution may change that...
 
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Source: http://www.knowabouthealth.com/bird-flu-in-northeast-india-in-midst-of-cricket-world-cup/7979/

Bird flu in northeast India in midst of Cricket World Cup
Posted by Rupali Gupta on February 20, 2011

India is one of the hosts to Cricket World Cup 2011, which kicked off on 19 Feb. The Indian Government has alerted of bird flu or avian influenza outbreak in Tripura, northeastern part of the country. The government is taking necessary steps to deal with the outbreak and has communicated that there was no reason to panic...
 
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25/02/2011
Mizoram bans import of chicken, eggs from Tripura and Myanmar

Aizawl, Feb 25 (PTI) The Mizoram government today issued a prohibitory order banning import of chicken, eggs and all products made from chicken from neighbouring Tripura state and Myanmar, where bird flu (H1N1) was recently detected.

An official statement said that bird flu was detected on January 18 at Sittwe district in Myanmar, the country which shares a 404 km-long international border with Mizoram.


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Fresh culling in Tripura
OUR CORRESPONDENT

Agartala, March 5: Fears of a fresh outbreak of bird flu (H1N1 virus) has led the Tripura government to sound a red alert all over the state, specially along its 856km border with Bangladesh, and the state?s flourishing poultry business into a tizzy.

Following a directive from the Union ministry of animal resource development, fresh culling of chicken and ducks commenced today in the government-run R.K. Nagar poultry and duck farm, 8km from here, and in 10 villages located within a 3km-radius of the farm. Intensive surveillance is also being conducted in villages within its 10km radius.

?We have started fresh culling from today with payment of compensation to poultry and duck farmers and this will continue. We have already culled at least 1,200 chickens and 400 ducks in the farm and in the villages within 3km radius of the farm,? Sriram Taranikant, commissioner for animal resource development department, said.
 
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Fresh cases of bird flu in Tripura
Indo-Asian News Service
Agartala, March 06, 2011First Published: 14:55 IST(6/3/2011)
Last Updated: 14:56 IST(6/3/2011)
Fresh cases of avian influenza or bird flu have been detected in another Tripura poultry farm, and culling of birds is expected to start on Monday, an official said on Sunday. "At least 400 poultry birds have died since March 1 at the Gandhi Gram government poultry farm. Central government experts tested the samples of the dead birds and found them positive for the H5 strain of avian influenza," Tripura animal resource development department Joint Director Jyotirmoy Chakraborty told IANS.

He said: "For further confirmation, the samples have been sent to the Eastern Region Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (ERDDL) in Kolkata and the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) in Bhopal. Reports from both the laboratories are expected by late Sunday."

According to officials, if the two reports are confirmed positive for the H5 strain of avian influenza, the culling of birds would start from Monday at the government poultry farm where more than 7,000 poultry birds are lodged.

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Source: http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5000310

06/03/2011
Fresh culling ordered in Tripura

Agartala, Mar 6 (PTI) Tripura government has launched fresh culling operation at Bridrinagar gram panchayat areas, close to government-run R K Nagar Farm where hundreds of ducks died of avian influenza last month.
As many as 116 birds were culled at Bridrinagar, 7.5 km from here yesterday, Joint Director of Animal Resource Development Department (ARDD) Jyotirmoy Chakraborty said today.
He said the Centre had clearly instructed to go for fresh culling within 3 km radius of the affected area, R K Nagar Farm, where mass-culling operation was carried out in February.
Altogether 16 Rapid Response Teams have been inducted in the culling operation that will cover around 12 to 15 villages of West Tripura district over the next few days, he said.
Experts from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, were also in the state to oversee the culling operation and follow-up action undertaken by the ARDD, Chakraborty said.
There was a report of outbreak of avian flu in another government-run farm at Gandhigram where 380 chicks and ducks died since March 1, he said.
"We have sent samples to the High Security Animal Disease Research Laboratory for test and are waiting for report," he said.
However, Chakraborty made it clear that there was no report of avian flu in Sipahijala Wildlife Sanctuary though few birds were found "mysteriously" dead over the past few days.
"We have carried out histo pathological test on a carcass at our laboratory here but no (avian influenza) symptom has been found," he said, adding another carcass has been sent to High Security Animal Resource Disease Laboratory for postmortem.
 
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Over 11,000 birds to be culled in Tripura farm
TNN | Mar 7, 2011, 11.13pm IST

AGARTALA: Tripura may face severe meat scarcity in times to come with massive culling operations in the state following the spurt of avian flu in the region. More than 11,000 birds would be culled at the state-run Gandhigram farm and more than 20,0000 eggs would be destroyed as High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) at Bhopal confirmed avian influenza strains among the birds here.

"Culling has already begun and we are taking no chance. Birds would be culled and eggs would destroyed according to prescribed guidelines", said Dr Deepanshu Choudhury, assistant director of the animal husbandry department.

Last week, about 400 birds died in the Gandhigram farm sending the authorities into tizzy. Before Gandhigram, another state-run farm at RK Nagar had also experienced the flu infection among birds which resulted in culling of about 5000 ducks.

"About 2100 hens, 7068 chicks and 1400 Japanese Koel will be culled in the Gandhigram poultry farm", said an ARD official. Commissioner and secretary to the ARD Sriram Taranikanth said, a strict surveillance would be maintained over a radius of upto 10 km from the affected farms.

He said the Union ministry has also advised ARD to take steps to stop the infection from spreading in the areas that were infected previously. These include identification of infected and surveillance areas, ban on movement of poultry and its products in the infected area, closure of poultry, egg markets and shops within a radius of 10 km from the infected site among other regulations. tnn
 
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Ministry of Agriculture07-March, 2011 16:16 IST Culling of Birds and Destruction of Egg and Feed Material Ordered in State Poultry Farm Agartala
Bird Flu Contained within the Infected Site
H5 strains of Avian Influenza have been confirmed in the poultry samples collected from State Poultry Farm, Gandhigram, Agartala, Tripura.

The samples collected from the infected site were forwarded to the ERDDL, Kolkata and High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal for testing. The test conducted at both the laboratories confirmed that the samples from State Poultry Farm are positive for H5 strain of Avian Influenza.

It has been decided to immediately commence the culling of birds and destruction of eggs and feed material etc. so as to control further spread of the disease without loss of time.

It has also been decided that the entire poultry will be culled within a radius of 3 kms. of the focus of infection viz. State Poultry Farm, Gandhigram, Agartala. In addition to the culling strategy, surveillance will be carried out over a further radius up to 10 kilometers.

Surveillance throughout the State is being intensified to monitor further spread of infection, if any.

State Government has been asked to furnish a daily report on the control and containment operations to the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries in the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Centre has advised that a series of strategic actions are required to be taken immediately in the above area by the Animal Husbandry and Public Health Departments. These include declaration of infected and surveillance areas, ban on movement of poultry and its products in the infected area/closure of poultry and egg markets and shops within a radius of 10 kms. from the infected site, ban on movement of farm personnel, restricting access to wild and stray birds; restricting access to the infected premises; destruction of birds; disposal of dead birds and infected materials; clean-up and disinfection followed by sealing of the premises and issue of sanitization certificate; post operations surveillance; imposition of legislative measures etc. along with necessary measures laid down in the Contingency Plan (2005) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.

As regards compensation for loss of poultry on account of culling and destruction of birds, the rate for payment of compensation has been been indicated to the State Governments. The Government of India has conveyed the decision to share costs of compensation on 50:50 basis with the State Governments and authorized State Governments to utilize funds available with them under the programme of ?Assistance to States for Control of Animal Disease? (ASCAD), which is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme. The payment of compensation should be ensured immediately and simultaneously to culling.

International Organizations will be notified by the Government of India at its level.

MP:SB:CP: avian influenza (7.3.2011)
(Release ID :70575)

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