Bird flu outbreak: 4 crows discovered lifeless at Mehsana in Gujarat, despatched for lab checks

Image Source : PTI Bird flu outbreak: 4 crows discovered lifeless at Mehsana in Gujarat, despatched for lab checks
 Four crows had been discovered lifeless in Gujarat’s Mehsana district on Thursday, amid an alert sounded within the state in view of the fowl flu circumstances rising in another components of the nation, officers mentioned.

The crows had been discovered lifeless within the premises of the well-known Sun Temple in Modhera village of Mehsana.

The carcasses have been despatched to a Bhopal-based laboratory to examine in the event that they died as a result of fowl flu or another cause, Mehsana’s animal husbandry officer Dr Bharat Desai instructed PTI.

“In case of the avian flu, a large number of birds die suddenly. In this case, only four have died due to unknown reasons. Even though it does not look like a case of avian influenza, we have sent the carcasses to a laboratory in Bhopal for a detailed analysis,” Desai mentioned.

As a precautionary measure, the animal husbandry division at Mehsana has collected samples, together with fowl droppings and blood samples, of fifty migratory birds from the Thol lake and despatched them to Bhopal for evaluation, he mentioned.

The Gujarat Animal Husbandry Department on Wednesday sounded an alert throughout the state to beef up surveillance and monitoring within the wake of the fowl flu scare.

Four birds had been discovered lifeless in Madhi village of Surat district on Wednesday, days after the loss of life of 55 birds in Junagadh, state Animal Husbandry Minister Kunvarji Bavaliya earlier mentioned.

The minister, nevertheless, asserted that Gujarat was nonetheless not affected by the fowl flu.

Notably, the fowl flu virus has been detected in some crows whose carcasses had been just lately present in Indore, Agar Malwa and Mandsaur districts of Madhya Pradesh, following which the state has banned the entry of rooster consignments from southern states for 10 days as a precautionary measure.

An outbreak of the avian flu has additionally been reported from two poultry farms in Kerala’s Kozhikode district, in addition to components of Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan.

The Centre on Wednesday deployed multi-disciplinary groups in fowl flu-affected areas of Kerala and Haryana.

Thousands of chickens and geese have been culled in Kerala to include the unfold of the H5N8 avian influenza pressure.
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