12 Jan. 2012 12:49 AM
Meghalaya government Wednesday confirmed that the samples of dead birds sent to Bhopal tested positive of bird-flu.“The government sent samples of birds died on the government-run farm at Williamnagar, to the Bhopal-High Security Animal Disease Laboratory have tested positive of H5N1,” Prashant Naik, principal secretary of Animal and Husbandry department told Nagaland Post.
As soon as the laboratory informed about the reports, Wednesday evening, Meghalaya government alerted all district authorities.
More than 3,000 poultry birds have died in the past few weeks on a farm in Williamnagar, the district headquarters of East Garo Hills district. “We have asked the district administration to monitor health of all the birds and the movement of birds from the affected area has also been stopped,” Naik said.
District administrations in the western part of Meghalaya, meanwhile, have imposed Section 144 CrPC banning movement and selling of poultry and poultry products after the confirmation of bird flu.
“It has been decided to immediately commence the culling of birds and destruction of eggs and feed material to control further spread of the disease. The virus has been contained in the affected area,” Praveen Bakshi, district magistrate of East Garo Hills said.
“The culling will start from tomorrow (Thursday) within a radius of three kilometres of the infected area,” Bakshi said, adding that movement of farm personnel, restricting access to wild and stray birds and stopping access to infected premises has been banned.In addition, surveillance has been ordered in surrounding areas up to 10 km. http://www.nagalandpost.com/ChannelNews/Regional/RegionalNews.aspx?news=TkVXUzEwMDAxMTgxMQ%3D%3D-FSb8q7qqUUU%3D
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