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Written By: Admin | Published : October 30, 2012 11:32 AM IST
The avian influenza outbreak has really wreaked havoc at the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) at Hesaraghatta, 40 km from Bangalore. Due to the outbreak, thousands of chickens, ducks and emus had to be culled. On Monday, the state government confirmed that 206 chickens and 17 ducks had died at the institute last weekend were affected by the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus.
The outbreak prompted the animal husbandry department to announce the culling of over 33,000 birds on the CPDO premises and its 1-km radius. 52 chicken sheds in the area were also sanitized to prevent any spread of the flu.
About 80 samples were collected from villages around CPDO and sent for tests to Bhopal's High-Security Animal Disease Laboratory on Saturday. No further unnatural deaths of birds have been reported from this zone, said animal husbandry department principal secretary Aravind Jannu. Action has also been initiated to sanitize turkey, duck, emu and chicken units. Ten teams are involved in surveillance work in the 10-km-wide affected zone. Twenty-five rapid response teams are involved in the culling and disposal of the birds on the CPDO farm, said Jannu. A school on the CDPO premises has been closed for 15 days, the official said.
Last week, over 3000 turkeys had died of avian influenza in the institute.
Avian influenza is considered one of the most dangerous sources of the virus and though it still hasn t affected humans like SARS or swine flu, experts believe that global warming and a climate change might make it one of the most devastating, pandemic causing zoonotic diseases.
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