H5N1 Confirmed: Claims thousands of birds/poultry in Tripura

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Dhalai, Apr 6 (ANI): Authorities in Tripura on Sunday confirmed the presence of avian influenza virus in the Kamalpur area of Dhalai district.
Authorities in Tripura on Sunday confirmed the presence of avian influenza virus in the Kamalpur area of Dhalai district.

The Bhopal's High Security Animal Laboratory has found that the samples positive.
Culling operations are likely to be started as and when the directives are issued. (ANI)

http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_19104_Bird-flu-confirmed-in-Tripuras-Dhalai-district.html

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http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04060801/H5N1_Tripura_Confirmed.html

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Bird flu hits Tripura

Sun Apr 6, 2008 8:39pm IST
AGARTALA, India (Reuters) - A fresh outbreak of bird flu has been reported in poultry in Tripura, a top veterinary official said on Sunday. Veterinary workers were preparing to slaughter thousands of chickens and ducks in Tripura, bordering Bangladesh, after preliminary reports that more than 3,000 birds had died, officials said.
"It is bird flu and the final report is expected tomorrow," Ashis Roy Burman, director of Tripura's Animal Resources Development Department told Reuters in Agartala.
"The virus must have spread from Bangladesh."
Authorities in Bangladesh have culled millions of birds but are still struggling to contain the virus.
In West Bengal, authorities said the deadly virus had resurfaced in Nadia district, which also borders Bangladesh.
West Bengal had briefly contained the outbreak by culling nearly four million birds in 14 of its 19 districts, but the virus has intermittently resurfaced.
"We will again have to cull more birds," Anisur Rahaman, West Bengal's animal resources minister said by telephone from Kolkata.
Health workers in both states said they were looking for people with flu-like symptoms.
India has not reported any human infections so far, but experts fear the H5N1 strain could mutate into a form easily transmitted from person to person, leading to a pandemic.
Since January, poultry sales in West Bengal have fallen by about 70 percent and traders are struggling.
India reported it first outbreak in 2006 in Maharashtra.
The World Health Organization described the January outbreak in West Bengal as the worst ever in India.

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Bird flu confirmed in Tripura's Dhalai district (Tripura Bird Flu -Update)

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Dhalai, Apr 6: Authorities in Tripura on Sunday confirmed the presence of avian influenza virus in the Kamalpur area of Dhalai district.

"We received preliminary confirmation Sunday of bird flu in a bordering town Kamalpur, in remote Dhalai district," the state's top official Dr A Roy Barman who went to the spot for investigation told ANI over phone.

Over 3000 chickens, ducks, crows and other birds had first fallen sick and then died reportedly died during the past one week.

Barman said samples from dead birds were sent to the state-run High Security Research Laboratory in the central Indian city of Bhopal had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.

Official said the culling would start on Tuesday.

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/23029...rd-Flu--Update)

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8 Apr 2008, 0145 hrs IST,Kounteya Sinha,TNN
NEW DELHI: [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Bird [COLOR=blue! important]flu[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]has now hit Tripura, making it the fifth state to be infected by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus over the last three years.

The virus has killed over 3,000 birds in Tripura's Dhalai district over the past week, forcing state animal husbandry officials to send dead birds samples to Bhopal's High Security [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Animal [COLOR=blue! important]Disease[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] Laboratory.

Although initial test results pointed to an H5N1 outbreak on Saturday, written confirmation from the lab was received by Union animal husbandry secretary Pradeep Kumar only on Monday evening.

The state government has set up 20 rapid response teams to start culling operations from Tuesday morning. Around 20,000 birds, mostly backyard poultry, within a five-km radius of the affected area, will be culled over the next three days.

A central team headed by director of animal husbandry and vigilance J C Biswas is in the state since Saturday preparing for control and containment operations.

This fresh outbreak comes at a time when the country is already grappling with its worst [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]avian [COLOR=blue! important]influenza[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] outbreak in West Bengal.

The first outbreak was reported from Maharashtra in 2006. Since then, Gujarat, Manipur and West Bengal have also reported the highly dangerous H5N1 outbreaks. However, for India, the only consolation has been that the virus has not infected a single human being.

Kumar told TOI, "One sample from Mohanpur village tested positive for H5N1. We aren't surprised as the village is just half a km from Bangladesh, which is facing the region's worst and most extensive avian influenza outbreak. While most of the poultry population in this area is backyard, two-three commercial poultry farms also exist."

However, there's some consolation for Mohanpur's poultry breeders. They will receive compensation more than what farmers received during all the four previous outbreaks.

The earlier outbreaks saw farmers receive Rs 40 per egg-laying adult [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]chicken[/COLOR][/COLOR] and ducks, Rs 30 for those used for meat and Rs 10 per chick.

Under the new compensation package, ducks and geese will fetch Rs 75 while turkey will fetch Rs 160. The compensation amount for egg-laying chicken has been increased by Rs 10 while broilers will fetch Rs 40. "Tripura has Bangladesh on one side and Myanmar on the other. This made the state highly vulnerable. The virus could have been transmitted through smuggling of poultry birds from Bangladesh because of the porous border," a [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]health[/COLOR][/COLOR] ministry official said. Culling from Tuesday would be carried out within a radius of five km of Mohanpur and seven adjoining villages ? Billaschara, Noagaon, Mayachari, Halhuli, Harerkhola, Marachara and Kamalpur. The state government has banned movement of all vehicles to and from these villages. It has also banned the sale and consumption of poultry and poultry products in the affected and adjoining villages. The state forest department has also asked its officials to keep a watch on Tripura's 10 big water bodies where migratory birds from India and abroad are currently breeding. Dhalai is 180 kilometres north of state capital Agartala.

Meanwhile, West Bengal is finding it extremely difficult to free itself from the H5N1 virus. Nadia has become the fourth district to be re-infected. The virus was confirmed in the Ranaghat area of Nadia on Saturday. In March, Malda, Murshidabad and Jalpaiguri reported reinfection after avian influenza was first reported from the state on January 15.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bird_flu_spreads_to_Tripura_/articleshow/2933797.cms

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