Re: Peacocks die due to unknown disease in Haryana
Re: Peacocks die due to unknown disease in Haryana
?Newcastle disease virus killed peacocks?
Deevakar Anand, Hindustan Times
Gurgaon, August 14, 2012
First Published: 01:12 IST(14/8/2012)
Last Updated: 01:13 IST(14/8/2012)
Contrary to the claims of the departments of wildlife and animal husbandry that the recent peacock deaths in the Aravalis were due to heat stroke, doctors at the Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, have confirmed that the birds died due to a contagious and fatal disease ? Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV).
The disease is commonly found in poultry birds.
As many as 10 peacocks had died mysteriously at Kasan village, adjoining the Industrial Model Township (IMT), Manesar, in the second week of July. A dozen more were also found dead at Hasanpur village on June 10.
The wildlife authorities had stated that the peacocks had died due to ?heat-stroke?.
However, HT through a news item had raised doubts over the ?heat-stroke? claims of the authorities.
?We had collected faeces, oral and nasal discharges from the birds kept at the People for Animal (veterinary hospital) at Sadhrana and found traces of NDV virus,? said Dr NK Mahajan, senior disease investigation officer (poultry) at the Hisar-based university.
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Last week, around 30 peacocks died mysteriously in Greater Noida. [for more on this see
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=190162 - Ro]
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India...se-virus-killed-peacocks/Article1-913281.aspx
