Bird flu back again in WB, thousands of poultry to be culled

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Posted online: Monday , March 10, 2008 at 12:39:24
Updated: Monday , March 10, 2008 at 01:00:33

Berhampur, March 10: Bird flu virus has resurfaced in two blocks of West Bengal's Murshidabad district, prompting authorities to take up culling operations on Monday.

Samples collected from Naya Mukundapur and Bodra villages of the district have primarily tested H5N1 positive at the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) in Bhopal, state Animal Resources Department minister Anisur Rehman said.

Murshidabad District Magistrate Subir Bhadra said that 60 teams began culling operations at Raghunathganj 11 and Muridabad-Jiyaganj blocks from where fresh chicken deaths were reported.

"Fifty thousand chicken will be killed in the three-day culling exercise", he said.

The ARD minister said the sale and consumption of poultry has been banned in the notified area of the district till further orders.

Admitting that the culling operations were not cent per cent successful in the affected districts, Rehman had said it was not possible for the government to make the system totally foolproof.

"Due to lack of awareness, many people had hidden their poultry. Some birds may have escaped culling", he said.

The ARD, he said, in coordination with the panchayats, was keeping vigil on the overall situation.

Culling operations had been ordered from mid-January after 16 of the state's 19 districts were found to have been affected by deadly avian influenza and a ban had been imposed on the sale and consumption of chicken and poultry products for three months.

Nearly 40 lakh chicken were culled till February 5 and ban on sale of chicken and ducks was lifted a fortnight ago.

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Kudos to Bamponth to establish seclularism by removing comnunal birds who were hiding and living under fasist RSS plot by J. Basu on 10 Mar 2008

Comnunal Hindoos are trying to save lives of chicken under their pagnistic superstitions, while brave Left Front statesmen, under the seclular leadership of mighty superpower Chin, are carrying out the rationalistic, seclular and progressib task of etnic clnsing of chiken in Bongal since these chiken are well known for inciting comnunal violence and fascism against party cadrs. In spite of RSS plot to save chiken, such fasist plans can not succeed because History is on the side of rebolution and Suprem Leder Maao is guiding brave seclular statesmen like Karate Somnath ji AChutiyanandan ji, Budda ji, Ychor ji, et al. to remove comnunalism and and make Hidoosthan free of Hindoos and hence make it seclularisthan.

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