Thursday, February 3, 2011

Bangladesh: 8,000 Chickens Culled - Confirmed

Thu, Feb 3rd, 2011 5:21 pm BdST


Kishoreganj, Feb 3 (bdnews24.com) – Some 8,000 chickens of a poultry farm, infected with the H5N1 virus, in Kishoreganj have been culled.

The culled chickens, from Mozammel Haque's poultry farm at Bagadia village of Sadar Upazila, were buried on Thursday noon under the supervision of the district livestock department.

District livestock officer A S M Naushad Hossain told bdnews24.com that they took the step to check the spread of the disease, which was a subtype of the Influenza A virus and could cause illness in humans and many other animals.

The bird flu infection was confirmed when the livestock department sent a sample of the tissue to the Central Diseases Investigation Laboratory in Dhaka on Wednesday after some of the chickens of the farm had died.

Later, the local administration took the initiative to have the chickens culled.

Hossain said the affected farm owner would be given financial assistance, as per the government policy.

The farm owner said the culling caused him a loss of around Tk 1.4 million. "However, the government has assured me of providing Tk 150 for each chicken, which will help me recover my losses a little bit."

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