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1.5 Lakh Birds to Be Culled in Manipur, No Human Infection Thus Far
The High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal and the National Institute of Virology in Pune have confirmed the presence of the H5N1 strain in a backyard poultry farm near Imphal, Manipur’s capital.
The federal and state governments had put all systems on alert after the labs sent in their reports on samples from 132 chickens that died in a backyard poultry farm in Chingmeirong village in East Imphal district. The reports said that seven of the eight samples tested positive for bird flu.
As part of control and containment, the state government has already killed the remaining birds in that farm and has disinfected it.
Twenty teams will begin culling of an estimated 1.5 lakh birds tomorrow within a 5-km radius of the location, said the director of veterinary and animal husbandry in the Manipur government. This operation could last five days.
As per procedure, compensation for the loss of each bird will be paid. The region will then be disinfected and kept under constant surveillance to keep track of any infection of humans.
Twenty one persons associated with that Chingmeirong unit have been thoroughly checked but no human case was found, said a Union Health Ministry official.
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