Nepal - Bird flu H5N1 confirmed in Chitwan poultry farm

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Source: http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fu...nfirmed+in+Chitwan+poultry+farm&NewsID=373552


Bird flu confirmed in Chitwan poultry farm
? About 30?000 fowls of the 70?000 birds have died of virus ? Rapid response team swings into action to curb spread
Added At: 2013-04-21 12:28 AM
Last Updated At: 2013-04-21 12:28 AM

HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE

CHITWAN: The highly pathogenic avian flu (H1N1) virus has been detected at one of the biggest poultry farms in Chitwan in a recent case of bird flu outbreak. Authorities have confirmed the disease at Laxmi Rana?s poultry farm in Godrang of Bharatpur.

The confirmation came after the outbreak claimed about 30,000 of the total 70,000 fowls at the farm.

After the Central Veterinary Laboratory confirmed the disease, a rapid response team from the district livestock office of Chitwan and the National Bird Disease Research Laboratory reached the farm and started its operation from Friday night itself...

 

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Bird flu (H1N1 ?) confirmed in Chitwan poultry farm

Bird flu (H1N1 ?) confirmed in Chitwan poultry farm

CHITWAN: The highly pathogenic avian flu (H1N1) virus has been detected at one of the biggest poultry farms in Chitwan in a recent case of bird flu outbreak. Authorities have confirmed the disease at Laxmi Rana?s poultry farm in Godrang of Bharatpur.

The confirmation came after the outbreak claimed about 30,000 of the total 70,000 fowls at the farm.

After the Central Veterinary Laboratory confirmed the disease, a rapid response team from the district livestock office of Chitwan and the National Bird Disease Research Laboratory reached the farm and started its operation from Friday night itself.

According to the sources, till Saturday afternoon, the team has culled 11,289 fowls at the three-storey farm building. They will start culling the remaining fowls in the two other floors of the building from Saturday evening and the farm will be cleaned by Sunday.

Though a bird flu team had reached the poultry farm earlier upon receiving information from locals regarding a possible bird flu outbreak, the owner had refused to cooperate until April 15, when specimens of the dead fowls were sent to the Central Livestock Laboratory for test.

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Source: http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=53451

Another bird flu outbreak in Chitwan, 55,000 chickens culled
CHANDNI HAMAL

CHITWAN, April 21: Barely a month after bird flu was discovered in a poultry farm in Bharatpur-8, a strain of bird flu has once again been detected in Gongrang and Mangalpur VDC of Bharatpur.

The district veterinary office has confirmed that bird flu was detected in a poultry farm owned by Laxmi Rana in Gondrang and another farm owned by Rajendra Hamal in Managalpur.

The 3,225 chickens in Hamal?s farm and 52,000 chickens in Rana?s farm have already been culled...

 

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Re: Bird flu (H1N1 ?) confirmed in Chitwan poultry farm

Re: Bird flu (H1N1 ?) confirmed in Chitwan poultry farm

I think there is no such thing as highly pathogenic H1N1; I thought only H5 and H7 viruses can be high-path.

Perhaps the reference should be to H5N1, not H1N1?

 

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Re: Bird flu (H1N1 ?) confirmed in Chitwan poultry farm

Re: Bird flu (H1N1 ?) confirmed in Chitwan poultry farm

It is really so