New Delhi: Alarmed on the unfold of chicken flu, Kerala authorities has sprung into motion to include the disaster earlier than it goes uncontrolled. Kottayam District Magistrate (DM) M. Anjana right now introduced that stringent measures are being taken together with culling of 10,500 birds within the district to stop its unfold.
“Avian flu has been detected in ward number 14. The ducklings of one single farmer have been affected. Culling process has started and we have identified around 10,500 birds around the affected area. All of them will be culled in the next two days, action has already started,” she stated whereas talking to ANI.
The Kerala authorities has already declared bird-flu as a state-specific catastrophe and issued a excessive alert after the outbreak of chicken flu was confirmed in numerous elements of Kottayam and Alappuzha districts.
“Post-operative sanitisation work will also be completed after the culling of the birds. We are doing surveillance in all the panchayats in the entire district,” Anjana added.
There are rising considerations over the unfold of the avian flu as this may additionally have an effect on human lives. Explaining concerning the measures being taken by Kottayam well being division, she stated, “At the same time, there are surveillance activities being taken to detect any symptoms in human beings. The activity area of the department will be around three kilometres around the epicenter.”
“We have 16 members in the field, they are looking for the symptoms of the respiratory tract and fever. So far no symptoms have been detected in human beings. we are confident that we will be able to control the avian flu in the next few days,” she added.
The avian flu has already claimed lives of 1000’s of ducklings in Kerala. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have already blocked any entry of poultry from Kerala to include the unfold of flu.
