Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:43pm IST
KOLKATA, India, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Laboratory tests have found the H5N1 bird flu virus in dead poultry in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a senior state government official said on Monday.
"The laboratory test in Bhopal has confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in the dead birds," Sridhar Ghosh, the senior official in West Bengal's Malda district where the outbreak was found, told Reuters. (Reporting by Sujoy Dhar, Editing by Dean Yates)
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