... Dr Ghimire added that many poultry owners tend to conceal their dead chickens without informing the authorities. He said some owners had even been found to have sold dead chickens to pig farmers, thereby facilitating the transmission of the bird-flu virus to various other areas.
Meanwhile, Junga Bahadur BC, president of the Nepal Chicken Sellers’ Business Association, refuted the claims, saying they were baseless.
“In case of Nayapati, no chickens had perished due to bird-flu. Officials were stopped from culling fowl for hours,” BC said. “This means that we need to start questioning the quality of tests conducted at the Central Veterinary Laboratory.”... http://www.kantipuronline.com/2013/02/12/capital/farm-owners-negligence-causing-bird-flu-outbreaks-say-experts/366979.html
