Maha flu scare: 119 birds found dead, samples sent for tests

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Maha flu scare: 119 birds found dead, samples sent for tests

Sunday, 31 January 2021 | PTI | Mumbai

Amid the avian influenza scare,  Maharashtra Animal Husbandry department officials on Saturday said 119 birds have been found dead across the state, taking the total number of such deaths since January 8 to 19,558.

The 119 deaths, including of 59 poultry birds, were reported on Friday and samples have been sent for influenza tests to National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal and Pune's Disease Investigation Section, they said.

As per outbreak protocols, poultry birds, feed, eggs, droppings etc are being destroyed scientifically in a one- kilometre radius from infected zones, the officials added.                 

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