West Bengal faces flu scare
January 31st, 2008
The Sudden death of thousands of chickens over the course of a few days has been cause for panic in Haryana’s Bhiwani District, as poultry farmers feared the highly-pathogenic H5N1 virus was to blame for the event.
They complain that the veterinarians are powerless in stopping the wave of deaths among birds. However, there has been no official confirmation of the presence of the bird flu disease in the community.
West Bengal has culled about 160,000 birds so far, with another 100,000 have died from the contagious strain of avian influenza.