Bird flu spreads in new area of affected Howrah district

Font Size -

Agencies

Posted online: Sunday , January 27, 2008 at 12:00:06
Updated: Sunday , January 27, 2008 at 12:16:41

Kolkata, January 27: With the detection of fresh cases of bird flu in another block of the affected Howrah district, steps are being taken to keep Kolkata insulated from the disease.

ARD Minister Anisur Rehman said poultry products from the affected areas would not be allowed to enter Kolkata.

Kolkata Municipal Corporation has formed eight teams to to keep the metropolis insulated from bird flu which has already reached adjoining Howrah and Hooghly districts.

The teams were moving in different parts of the city to monitor the situation.

The disease has gripped 11 of the 19 districts of the state, where nearly 13.50 lakh birds were culled till yesterday and another eight lakh remained to be culled.

The affected districts are Birbhum, South Dinajpur, Murshidabad, Nadia, Burdwan, Bankura, Malda, Coochbehar, Hooghly, Purulia and Howrah.

Culling was over in Hooghly, Burdwan, Bankura, South Dinajpur and Nadia districts.

With an improvement in the weather today, Rapid Response Teams were hopeful of meeting their daily culling targets.

Rains had hampered culling in many areas on Saturday.

Eleven teams were carrying out culling operations at Panchla block in Howrah district, which tested positive for bird flu on Saturday. Over 2000 poultry were culled in the block till 9 pm Saturday night.

Earlier, Sankrail block of the district had tested positive for avian influenza. Fifty-two teams were carrying out culling in seven gram panchayat areas of the block and had killed 4,767 chicken till Saturday night.

There were no reports of poultry deaths from the remaining 12 blocks of the district.

Bookmark this Page

What is this?

Digg

On Digg, users share intersting online content by submitting links to the site. At that point, the Digg audience can vote on whether or not they think it is interesting. Articles with lots of votes, or "diggs," rise up higher on the site's main page and topical subsection pages. Another form of social sharing, this site also lets users categorize the content they are submitting to Digg and label it with descriptions of up to 350 characters. Digg users can also submit comments on each content item submitted to the site.

To register, go to: http://digg.com/register

del.icio.us

At its most basic level, del.icio.us allows users to save their bookmarks online. Del.icio.us also gives users the ability to "tag" their bookmarks with descriptive category names. For example, someone who has bookmarked multiple Web pages that deal with the Washington Nationals baseball team could tag those links with any terms they want, like "baseball," "nationals," "natsfan," etc.

As members of a "social bookmarking" community, del.icio.us sers can also see how many other people have bookmarked the same pages, and they can look at those users' bookmark collections to find other interesting online content.

To register, go to: http://del.icio.us/register

Reddit

Reddit allows users to submit news articles and other online content to the site. Users also give articles a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Reddit then uses those votes to build a user profile and to find articles to recommend to you. Users can also submit comments on items posted to the site.

To register, go to: http://reddit.com/login

Digg

My Yahoo

Fark

del.icio.us

Newsvine

Rate this Article

Rating

Post Comments

Name*		Email ID*
Subject*		Country*
Message*	Characters remaining

TERMS OF USE: The views represented here are not neccesarily endorsed by www.expressindia.com and its allied websites. All messages will be moderated and no message that has inflammatory, abusive, derogatory language or any language deemed unfit for publication by the editor will be displayed. Though it will be endeavoured that as many messages as possible be displayed, there will be time lag between the submission and publication of the messages. The website reserves the right to publish or reject any message.

I agree to the terms of use.