Nepal: 8?500 chickens culled in Lalitpur due to bird flu

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8?500 chickens culled in Lalitpur
Added At: 2012-03-26 8:01 PM


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LALITPUR: Some 8,500 chickens have been culled and 1,500 eggs destroyed in Lalitpur, following the detection of the avian influenza (H5N1) causing bird flu there.

The bird flu virus was detected in chickens of a poultry farm owned by one Dhiren Gurung of Sainbu-5 some five days ago. This was the first bird flu case in the district.

Similarly, lab test of the sample extracted from chickens of the poultry farm adjoining Gurung's farm turned out to be positive on Sunday. The farm was owned by one Kamal Ghimire...

...Meanwhile, over 150 birds died all of sudden at Divarna VDC on Arghakhanchi district in the past three days.

Bird flu has been suspected behind the death of birds of locally known Sari species.

A specimen of the dead birds has been sent to Kathmandu for lab test, according to Chief of District Livestock Service Office in Arghakhanchi, Dr Gopal Giri.

 

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Re: Nepal: 8?500 chickens culled in Lalitpur due to bird flu

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EDITORIAL
Fowl play

Published on 2012-03-27 01:20:21
REPUBLICA
Failing on bird flu again

Bird flu has once again raised its ugly head in Nepal. Not that the threat ever went away completely. It would be foolhardy for any government to rest on its laurels on bird flu, but Nepali health authorities have been caught unawares, once again, as more bird flu incidences are being reported from around the country, the latest of them in Lalitpur. Only four days after the slaughter of 6,000 chicken from a farm in Lalitpur?s Bhaisepati, the virus has been reported in another poultry farm nearby. A month ago it was Bhaktapur farms that were hit by the scourge. According to veterinarians, while the flu virus is fairly innocuous in wild fowl, it spreads rapidly in poultry as it gains in virility. The most alarming prospect is of the virus morphing into a human-infectious form, which is, thankfully, a rare occurrence.

We have been raising this important issue time and again...