Malda / Press Trust of India
Bird flu detection at present can take up to a week.
After a gap of eight months, birdflu returned to West Bengal with samples of dead chicken from Malda district testing positive for the disease.
District Magistrate Sreedhar Ghosh told reporters on Monday that a notification about the disease would be made by the Centre on Tuesday after which culling would begin.
After a large number of chickens died in several villages under Englishbazar block in the district, ARD department collected samples of the dead birds and sent them to the specialised laboratory in Bhopal for testing.
At a meeting held earlier in the day, district authority banned transportation of poultry products outside the three affected villages of Satgheria, Sabjipara and Madhyapara.
The BDO of Englishbazar also banned selling of chicken in the affected areas.
Avian influenza outbreak was reported at Chanchal and Englishbazar in January and March respectively. At that time a total of 1,09,000 birds were culled in these two areas.
Meanwhile, around 1,100 chickens were culled in Khanpara area of Ri Bhoi district of Meghalaya, bordering Assam, official sources said on Monday.
State Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Director D Khonglah said the culling was undertaken due to the out-break of avian influenza in the neighbouring Assam.
Khonglah said his department was yet to receive the result of the blood samples sent for testing. The culling was carried out as a preventive measure.
So far, culling was carried out within the radius of 3 km of the affected area in Assam and his department was keeping strict vigil of the situation with sufficient veterinary personnel camping in the area.
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