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Human infection results today
Human infection results today
Ganesh Kanate
Thursday, February 23, 2006 01:02 IST
Has the dreaded bird flu affected human beings? The verdict will be out today. That is when the results of 94 human blood samples ?which were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune- will be out. And that is also when the real picture comes out.
The state government had sent as many as 151 human blood samples to the NIV out of which reports of 94 were expected by Thursday evening, said Bhushan Gagrani, official spokesperson of the state government on Wednesday.
Gagrani also said the government had not sent any fresh sample of bird or human blood either to High Security Animal Diseases Laboratory, Bhopal or NIV, Pune from any place other than Navapur. This, he said, has been clarified to dismiss rumours of spread of bird flu in other parts of the state like Hingoli, Jalna, Nagpur, and Karanja as reported by a section of the media.
Gagrani said the fact that 151 blood samples had been sent for tests did not mean that they were all affected by the virus. He said only nine individuals were hospitalised and kept in isolation wards under surveillance.
Similarly, he said, door-to-door survey was on in the possible affected areas of which total population was around 65,000.
?Till this evening, 50,000 persons had been checked by doctors and the paramedical staff deployed in Nandurbar district in general and Navapur tehsil in particular,? he said.
He said in Navapur, where the bird flu has struck first, all birds had been culled and all eggs and complete bird feed in the area too had been destroyed, Gagrani said. At least 1,95,128 birds from poultry farms and 14,669 birds from adjoining villages were culled, 3,60,000 eggs and 36 metric tonne bird feed was destroyed by the animal husbandry department that had taken over charge tehsil, he said.
?What is left there is the litter consisting of waste and bird wings and so on which too are being cleaned up on a war-footing,? he said.
The compensation package, he said, which was promised, was also being paid to poultry owners. An amount of Rs5,60,000 had already been distributed to four poultry farm owners, he said.
Human infection results today
Ganesh Kanate
Thursday, February 23, 2006 01:02 IST
Has the dreaded bird flu affected human beings? The verdict will be out today. That is when the results of 94 human blood samples ?which were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune- will be out. And that is also when the real picture comes out.
The state government had sent as many as 151 human blood samples to the NIV out of which reports of 94 were expected by Thursday evening, said Bhushan Gagrani, official spokesperson of the state government on Wednesday.
Gagrani also said the government had not sent any fresh sample of bird or human blood either to High Security Animal Diseases Laboratory, Bhopal or NIV, Pune from any place other than Navapur. This, he said, has been clarified to dismiss rumours of spread of bird flu in other parts of the state like Hingoli, Jalna, Nagpur, and Karanja as reported by a section of the media.
Gagrani said the fact that 151 blood samples had been sent for tests did not mean that they were all affected by the virus. He said only nine individuals were hospitalised and kept in isolation wards under surveillance.
Similarly, he said, door-to-door survey was on in the possible affected areas of which total population was around 65,000.
?Till this evening, 50,000 persons had been checked by doctors and the paramedical staff deployed in Nandurbar district in general and Navapur tehsil in particular,? he said.
He said in Navapur, where the bird flu has struck first, all birds had been culled and all eggs and complete bird feed in the area too had been destroyed, Gagrani said. At least 1,95,128 birds from poultry farms and 14,669 birds from adjoining villages were culled, 3,60,000 eggs and 36 metric tonne bird feed was destroyed by the animal husbandry department that had taken over charge tehsil, he said.
?What is left there is the litter consisting of waste and bird wings and so on which too are being cleaned up on a war-footing,? he said.
The compensation package, he said, which was promised, was also being paid to poultry owners. An amount of Rs5,60,000 had already been distributed to four poultry farm owners, he said.
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