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Samples of chicken sent from Cooch Behar and Hooghly districts to the Highrisk Security Disease Laboratory (HSDL) in Bhopal yesterday tested positive," Animal Resources Development Minister Anisur Rahaman said.
"We have been informed by the Centre. Steps will be taken accordingly," he said.
"Steps are being taken to officially notify both Cooch Behar and Hooghly districts bird flu affected, for the next course of action including culling," Rahaman said.
The samples which tested positive were from Dinhata in Cooch Behar district and Balagarh in Hooghly district, he said.
There was, however, no case of humans beings being affected, the minister said.
The target of culling which was set at 20 lakh was also likely to increase, he said.
The daily target now was three lakh with 600 teams on the job from today, he said.
About 150 technical teams from eight states, including Haryana, Assam, Maharashtra, Orissa and Jharkhand would soon join to monitor the culling.
West Bengal's border with neighbouring states has already been sealed, the minister said.
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RatingBecause of communist govt now virus has become notional danger sack the communist govt.
It is so sad. CPM and CPI are so obcessed by nuke deal that they have no time and will to tackle chicken deal. They neglected industry for 30 years. Tried to make everybody happy by poultry farming. Now chickens have also revolted. What will this revolt cause next?
Some CPI(M) party members are agents of multinational companies who want to kill indigenous industry. They have burnt Calcutta wholesale market so that small traders vanish and now the spreading the virus to kill chicken farmers. These shameless CPIM people want make Bengal colony of Multinationals
Does anyone believe that culling chickens for free will be taken in good spirits in a country like India where people starve. Will the businesses absorb culling without any substantial reward. Who will guarantee that culling conducted by thousands of people will not expose them to the deadly virus, and this itself could promote further spread of virus. We should utilise our OWN brain to solve the problem by our own JUGADU ways. One option is to involve Bhaba atomic center so as to radiate these birds and then cull them in a traditional style. If the doses given can be precisely monitored, then may be the meat of such chicken could still be good for consumption, or at least better than the contaminated food that already sits on the shelves of supply chain for humans.
The whole West Bengal is infected by commis!
It looks like the spread of virus is quite widespread and it went unreported for quite sometime. The commies are reporting it when it is going out of control.These commies simply dont have the infrastructure to contain the disease. This is because, apart from playing repressive politics, they have done nothing for WB. Its high time that people throw out this Commy virus which is more dangerous than avian virus.
Birrds are being culled. What about CPM (Communal Party (Muslim)) hawks, who need to be culled without flu? WHO will take this initiative?
Hey Commies... look at what your role models in China have done. They were able to eradicate houseflies and rats.. sure enough you can kill something bigger than that! but for that you have to work.. just criticising chickens won't solve the problem.
If the communists were paying more attention to governing than criticising BJP and congress, things would have been better. What do you expect from a bunch of arrogant leftists anyway? How come English TV channels are not saying anything? If it was Gujarat they would all be blowing their bugles by now!
with jokers like the communists running the show this was expected!The communists don't know how to govern, all they know is to critize the N-deal and support china. the people of bengal should kick them out!
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