After West Bengal, bird flu hits Tripura, samples test positive

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Samudra Gupta Kashyap

Posted online: Tuesday , April 08, 2008 at 02:53:53
Updated: Tuesday , April 08, 2008 at 02:53:53

Guwahati, April 7 With West Bengal still grappling to contain bird flu, the virus has now been reported from Tripura. Laboratory tests today confirmed an outbreak of the disease in the border state, and the government is likely to issue a formal notification to this effect soon.

Altogether eight panchayat areas under the Kamalpur sub-division in Dhalai district of Tripura have reported deaths of thousands of fowls in the past two weeks, with samples sent to Bhopal testing positive today.

Dhalai district shares an international boundary with the Maulabibazar district of Bangladesh, which is one of the 29 districts in the country to have been badly affected by avian flu in the past few months.

Sources in Agartala said a team of three officials from the Union Health Ministry and one from the Union Agriculture Ministry met Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today evening and briefed him on the outbreak and the steps required to be taken to control it.

The Government has dispatched a team of 100 people trained in bird culling to Kamalpur, where the killing of the fowl will begin tomorrow morning. Around 25,000 birds may be killed in the eight gram panchayat areas. The administration has also kept 200 teams ready for culling and procured the anti-flu virus from Delhi.

A red alert has been sounded to prohibit import of poultry from outside the state, including Bangladesh, which shares a 856-km-long porous border with Tripura. BSF personnel and special surveillance teams are keeping a close watch in the border areas.

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