India: Bird flu in poultry in Kerala: 2022-2026

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Source: https://www.asianetnews.com/local-news/6920-ducks-killed-after-bird-flu-r62j2v

Bird Flu: bird flu; 6920 ducks killed and huge loss to the farmer
Bird flu was confirmed in all tests. The owner told Shefiq that he had lost about Rs 16 lakh.
Web Team
Haripad, First Published Jan 21, 2022, 9:58 PM IST


Harippad: In Viyapuram Grama Panchayat, 6920 ducks confirmed with bird flu were killed near Karipadam in Vallamkulangara. The ducks owned by Thamarakulam Kannanamkuzhi Shefeek were killed. The action was taken in collaboration with the panchayat under the leadership of the Rapid Response Team of the Animal Husbandry Department. Dr. Zulfikar, Dr. Dear Shivaram, Dr. Bindukumari, Dr. The call was made by a 20-member team led by Vipin Chandran. Five ducks were tested at Manjadi in Thiruvalla, 10 at Bhopal and six at Alappuzha.

Bird flu was confirmed in all tests. The owner told Shefiq that he had lost about Rs 16 lakh. Grama Panchayat President Sheeja Surendran and Vice President P.A. Shanavas, Development Standing Committee Chairperson P.D. Shyamala and ward member Jayan also reached the spot.

 

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Source: https://www.timesnownews.com/mirror...culled-in-alappuzha-district-article-95121263

Bird flu scare in Kerala: Over 20,000 poultry birds to be culled in Alappuzha district
Bird flu scare in Kerala: Around 1,500 birds died at the poultry farms at Vazhuthanam Padinjare and Vazhuthanam Vadakke, both in ward 9 of Haripad municipality in the past week.
Sarmeeli Mallick
Updated Oct 27, 2022 | 04:06 PM IST

Alappuzha: Nearly 20,500 poultry birds will be culled in the Alappuzha district of Kerala after the death of nearly 1,300 ducks was reported at Haripad in the Kuttanad region in the last 5 days.
The order came after the confirmation of the outbreak of avian influenza at Vazhuthanam in Haripad municipality on Wednesday. District Collector V.R. Krishna Teja informed that presence of the H5N1 subtype of the Influenza A virus was reported in the duck in the area.
Around 1,500 birds died at the poultry farms at Vazhuthanam Padinjare and Vazhuthanam Vadakke, both in ward 9 of Haripad municipality in the past week...

 

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Source: https://www.newindianexpress.com/th...u-6987-ducks-culled-in-alappuzha-2515373.html

Bird flu: 6,987 ducks culled in Alappuzha
The disease was identified after the animal husbandry department culled around 20,000 ducks at paddy polders in Haripad municipality and Pallippad panchayat last week.
Published: 06th November 2022 06:02 AM | Last Updated: 06th November 2022 06:02 AM
By Express News Service

ALAPPUZHA : The Rapid Response Team on Saturday culled 6,987 ducks at the farm of Puthenpurayil Chacko at Pandi in Cheruthana panchayat after the ducks tested positive for H5N1 disease.Earlier, the samples collected from Chacko’s farm were sent to the Avian Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory, Thiruvalla, for preliminary examination, which confirmed the presence of the H5N1...

 

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Bird flu reported in one more local body in Alappuzha: https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/11/13/bird-flu-alappuzha-updates.html

 

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Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...at-karuvatta-in-alappuzha/article66140993.ece

Avian flu: 8,303 birds culled at Karuvatta in Alappuzha
November 15, 2022 08:14 pm | Updated 08:17 pm IST - ALAPPUZHA
The Hindu Bureau

Rapid response teams of the Animal Husbandry department on Tuesday culled 8,303 birds, mostly ducks, within a 1-km radius of bird flu-hit (H5N1) Karamuttu at Karuvatta grama panchayat in Alappuzha...

 

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Source: https://www.twentyfournews.com/2022/11/29/bird-flu-alappuzha-purakkad-karuvatta.html

Bird flu in Alappuzha; 9,300 birds in Purakkad panchayat and 292 birds in Karuwata are to be destroyed.
24 Web Desk 8 hours ago

Bird flu has been confirmed again in Karuwata and Purakkad in Alappuzha district. 9,300 birds in Purakkad panchayat and 292 birds in Karuvata gram panchayat are to be destroyed. The National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal confirmed that the Purakkad ducks died due to bird flu. (Bird flu Alappuzha Purakkad Karuvatta).

The ducks in the four-wing paddock died en masse. These belong to Devarajan in Karuvata Kochuparam. 200 ducks died within a week. Devarajan has 9,300 ducks aged 65 – 70 days. The ducks had blue eyes. Then the death started. Last year too, 11,000 ducks of Devarajan died due to bird flu.

Culling can be done only after confirmation of bird flu and notification of central government. Otherwise, the ducks who destroy it will be in a situation where they will not be compensated. The authorities of the Animal Protection Department had stated that it was because of this that the domestic birds in the area were not destroyed. According to the Collector's suggestion to find out the cause of bird flu every year in Alappuzha, the report of the study will be given within 2 weeks.

 

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Souce: https://asianatimes.com/avian-influenza-detected-in-ambalapuzha/

Avian Influenza detected in Ambalapuzha North, Kerala
By: Shagun Saxena
Date: December 11, 2022

H5N1 crisis in India

The AHD officials said, “ The Centre hasn’t notified the latest outbreak of H5N1. Once the notification is issued, immediate response teams of the AHD will cull around 14,100 ducks belonging to three farmers within a one-km radius of the hotspot. The bird culling operation is likely to happen on Monday. Domesticated birds in the area will be destroyed as well.”

The samples of the dead duck from Ambalapuzha North was sent to the National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, for analysis, which returned with the positive test results for avian influenza. In the wake of the outbreak, District Collector V.R Krishna Teja has issued an order banning the movement and sale of birds, their egg, and waste (manure) in Ambalapuzha North, Ambalapuzha South, Champakulam, Karuvarra, Nedumudi, Punnapra North, Punnapra South, Prakkad and Thakazhi grama panchayats...

 

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Source: https://english.news.cn/20221214/7b75aa2c923a4a2db21f101fa79333f8/c.html

India's Kerala starts culling of poultry birds following outbreak of bird flu
Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2022-12-14 19:09:15

NEW DELHI, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Authorities Wednesday began culling of domestic birds in the southern Indian state of Kerala, following an outbreak of bird flu, officials said.

The culling was carried out in Kottayam district, about 147 km north of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala.

According to officials, 8,000 birds will be culled in Arpookkara and Thalayazham areas of the district....

 

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/india...ds-birds-after-avian-flu-outbreak-2022-12-20/

1 minute readDecember 20, 202210:29 AM ESTLast Updated an hour ago
India's Kerala state culls hundreds of birds after avian flu outbreak
Reuters

KOTTAYAM, India, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Hundreds of birds were culled in India's southern state of Kerala where a district has seen a surge in the number of bird flu or avian influenza cases, local health officials told Reuters partner ANI.

After an outbreak last week in broiler chickens in two villages in Kottayam district, authorities have culled hundreds of ducks and other domestic birds, district veterinary doctors said...

 

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Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...rala-1800-birds-dead/articleshow/96927925.cms

Bird flu outbreak in state-run poultry farm in Kerala, 1800 birds dead
PTILast Updated: Jan 12, 2023, 09:38 AM IST

A bird flu outbreak has been reported in a state-run poultry farm in Kozhikode district of Kerala as around 1,800 chickens have died of the infection, official sources said. The presence of H5N1 variant, which has an additional proliferative capacity, was confirmed among the poultry in the local farm managed by the district panchayat here on Wednesday, the sources said...

 

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India - High pathogenicity avian influenza viruses (poultry) (Inf. with) - Follow up report 2 [FINAL]


GENERAL INFORMATION

COUNTRY/TERRITORY OR ZONE
ZONE

ANIMAL TYPE
TERRESTRIAL

DISEASE CATEGORY
Listed disease

EVENT ID
4701

DISEASE
High pathogenicity avian influenza viruses (poultry) (Inf. with)

CAUSAL AGENT
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus

GENOTYPE / SEROTYPE / SUBTYPE
H5N1

START DATE
2022/10/16

REASON FOR NOTIFICATION
Recurrence of an eradicated disease

DATE OF LAST OCCURRENCE
2020/09/30

CONFIRMATION DATE
2022/10/24

EVENT STATUS
Resolved

END DATE
2023/10/24

SELF-DECLARATION


NO REPORT INFORMATION

REPORT NUMBER
Follow-up report 2

REPORT ID
FUR_163432

REPORT REFERENCE - REPORT DATE
2023/10/24

REPORT STATUS
Validated

NO EVOLUTION REPORT


EPIDEMIOLOGY SOURCE OF EVENT OR ORIGIN OF INFECTION

• Unknown or inconclusive

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL COMMENTS
No epidemiological comment

QUANTITATIVE DATA SUMMARY

MEASURING UNIT
Animal

SpeciesSusceptibleCasesDeathsKilled and Disposed ofSlaughtered/ Killed for commercial useVaccinated Birds (DOMESTIC)NEW12141382038188323--TOTAL96532434631785687534--

DIAGNOSTIC DETAILS

CLINICAL SIGNS
YES

METHOD OF DIAGNOSTIC
Diagnostic test

Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_126635	2023/02/01	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_126625	2023/01/05	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_112176	2023/01/05	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_112173	2022/12/22	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_112170	2022/12/12	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_112167	2022/12/07	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_112166	2022/12/06	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_112165	2022/11/28	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_112128	2022/11/24	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_112127	2022/11/11	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_112126	2022/11/03	Positive
Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)	National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, India	Birds	ob_108598	2022/10/24	Positive

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https://wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/4701

 

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All three samples turn positive; concern in Alappuzha as disease spreads, people warned not to ignore symptoms

Wednesday 17 April, 2024 | 8:02 PMALAPPUZHA:

Bird flu has been confirmed yet again in Alappuzha district. Ducks had died in large numbers in Edathua and Cheruthana in Kuttanad. Following this, three samples were sent to a lab in Bhopal for testing. Now, the results of all three samples have turned positive.
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https://keralakaumudi.com/en/news/news.php?id=1288796&u=​

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Bird Flu confirmed in Alappuzha; culling to begin soon

17 April 2024, 08:30 PM IST

Alappuzha: Once again, Bird Flu has been confirmed in Alappuzha. According to the district administration, bird flu has been confirmed in the district as the results of the samples taken from the dead ducks of Cheruthana and Edathua in Kuttanad, and sent for detailed test in the security lab at Bhopal, have turned positive.
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https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/bird-flu-confirmed-in-alapuuzha-yet-again-1.9491239

 

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Source: https://www.newindianexpress.com/st...8/kerala-bird-flu-confirmed-again-in-kuttanad

Kerala: Bird flu confirmed again in Kuttanad
Following mass bird deaths, AHD sent samples of the dead birds to the National Institute of High-Security Animal Disease (NIHSAD), Bhopal, for analysis.​
Express News Service
Updated on:
27 Apr 2024, 11:56 pm


ALAPPUZHA: Officials of the animal husbandry department (AHD) has confirmed bird flu cases at three places in the district, stirring up worry among residents. Bird flu was confirmed at ward 10 of Edathua panchayat, ward 4 of Thakazhi and ward 7 of Ambalappuzha North.

Officials said the presence of the H5N1 subtype of the Influenza A virus was detected in ducks and chicken. Two weeks ago, bird flu was confirmed at Edathua and Cheruthana panchayats. The animal husbandry department has culled more than 17,000 ducks since the virus was detected.

Following mass bird deaths, AHD sent samples of the dead birds to the National Institute of High-Security Animal Disease (NIHSAD), Bhopal, for analysis. The samples were tested positive for avian influenza on April 25, said an official.​..

 

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Bird flu confirmed at one more place in Alappuzha

Presence of H5N1 subtype of Influenza A virus detected in quails at Kanjippadam South in Ambalappuzha North grama panchayat

May 07, 2024 08:35 pm | Updated 08:35 pm IST - ALAPPUZHA

Animal Husbandry department (AHD) officials said the presence of the H5N1 subtype of the Influenza A virus was detected in quails at Kanjippadam South (ward 9) in Ambalappuzha North grama panchayat.

A poultry farmer, raising quail and chicken, reported the death of some quails in recent days. Following the bird deaths, the AHD sent samples to the National Institute of High Security Animal Disease (NIHSAD), Bhopal, and they tested positive for avian influenza on Tuesday.
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https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...-more-place-in-alappuzha/article68150186.ece​

 

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Kottayam District
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Avian flu has been confirmed in the Paipad Ayayakari Padasekara

By Ashitha K May 30, 2024, 20:11 IST

Kottayam: In the first ward of Kottayam Paipad Panchayat, the district collector V. Vigneswari informed. Bird flu was confirmed in ducks raised by one Joseph Mathew in Puthanpura. H5N1 was confirmed after a mass die-off of ducks at the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases Lab in Bhopal.

18000 ducks were reared. Five and a half months old. A radius of one kilometer from the confirmed spot of bird flu has been declared as a bird flu affected area. All domesticated birds within a kilometer radius of the area where the disease is detected will be euthanized and scientifically disposed of under the supervision of the Animal Welfare Department. Actions will be taken to disinfect here. The rapid action team of the Animal Welfare Department will euthanize the birds and bury them scientifically. The disposal process is as per the instructions of the central government in 2021.

The sale and trafficking of birds and their products in Ward 1 of Paipad panchayat has been completely banned till further notice. A radius of one kilometer to 10 kilometers has also been declared as a surveillance zone. The marketing and trafficking of birds and their products has been banned for four days from Thursday (May 30) to June 2 in other wards of Paipad panchayat, Changanassery municipality, Vazhapally, Thrikodithanam and Kurichi gram panchayats under the surveillance zone.

Following the confirmation of bird flu, a meeting of officials of various departments was held at the Collectorate and it was decided to take immediate measures. The District Collector directed the coordinated action of Animal Protection Department, Local Self-Government, Revenue, Police, Forest, Health, Fire Rescue, Motor Vehicle Department and Local Self-Government Institutions.

https://keralaonlinenews.com/nattuvarthakal/kottayam/bird-flu-ayayakari-padasekara/cid14638974.htm

 

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Bird flu detected in chickens in Cherthala municipality

Animal Husbandry department officials say the disease was detected in chickens at poultry farms in ward 15 (Kurikkachira) and ward 16 (Polytechnic) of the civic body
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Updated - June 14, 2024 07:33 pm IST
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AHD officials, citing preliminary assessment, said that 3,505 birds within the 1-km radius of the hotspots in Cherthala will be culled on Saturday. Likewise, 2,942 birds in Kanjikuzhy and Muhamma will be culled.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...n-cherthala-municipality/article68289704.ece​

 

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Bird flu confirmed in kites, cranes at Mararikulam in Alappuzha

Onmanorama Staff Published: June 18

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https://www.onmanorama.com/news/ker...irmed-cranes-kites-mararikulam-alappuzha.html

 

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Possble H5N1 strain above:

Avian flu: 5,000 birds to be culled in Alappuzha
Bird flu detected in chickens at Mukkalvattam (Ward 9) in Muhamma panchayat
Published - June 05, 2024 06:33 pm IST - ALAPPUZHA

THE HINDU BUREAU
Rapid response teams (RRT) of the Animal Husbandry department (AHD) will cull 5,079 birds within the one-km radius of the bird flu hotspot in Muhamma grama panchayat in Alappuzha on Friday.

Officials said here on Wednesday that the presence of the H5N1 subtype of the Influenza A virus was detected in chickens at Mukkalvattam (Ward 9) in the panchayat. A poultry farm owner raising chicks lost several birds last week. Following the bird deaths, the AHD sent samples to the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases, Bhopal, for analyses, which tested positive for avian influenza earlier this week.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...to-be-culled-in-alappuzha/article68254744.ece