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BIRD FLU: TEAMS TO VISIT POULTRY FARMS
Though the Government denies bird flu outbreak in the State despite the reported death of thousands of chickens in Shimoga district, the Animal Husbandry Department officials in the district here are taking adequate precautionary steps.
The Deputy Director Dr. Devdas told Star of Mysore this morning that teams are being formed with route maps to visit all the poultry farms in the district.
He said, the team members will collect blood samples of chickens and the same will be sent to High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh for testing bird flu virus.
The teams will be headed by Dr. Devdas for the district operations and for the taluk survey another is formed, headed by Dr. Rajegowda. The operation will begin tomorrow.
However, the chicken market in city is doing better than the last two days which affected the business to some extent. With the Government denying bird flu outbreak and several experts calling it as common disease that affected the poultry, the scene seems to be turning to normalcy if the market trends are anything to go by.
It may be recalled here that the Deputy Commissioner had held a meeting of 15 poultry farmers and Animal Husbandry officials in his office yesterday to take stock of the situation.
# Posted : Thursday, February 23, 2006
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