Published: January 31,2009
Cooch Behar (WB), Jan 31 West Bengal Cooch Behar district was today declared bird flu-affected with authorities directed to cull 45,000 birds, official sources said.
Blood samples sent from Nagar Bhangni and Uttar Dangkoba villages, where a large number of chickens suddenly died tested positive for the H5N1 virus at laboratories in Kolkata and Bhopal, District Magistrate Rajesh Kumar Sinha said.
Sinha said culling would begin from Monday at Nagar Bhangni village under Dinhata-II block and Uttar Dangkoba village under Pachagarh gram panchayat in Mathabhanga sub-division.
Thirty culling teams comprising five members each would destroy 45,000 chickens, he said.
The border has been sealed and trading and transport of chicken from the affected areas prohibited.
The BSF on the Indo-Bangladesh border have been alerted to prevent birds from being smuggled out, he said.
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