TNN Mar 14, 2013, 04.47AM IST
MADHEPURA: The scary Bird Flu contagion has taken Madhepura district within its sweep where more than 800 chickens have perished during the last four days. The avian 'flu viral' was first noticed at Madheli and Jirwa panchayats under Shankerpur block in the district where chickens perished after dozing off and excreting green faeces in some of poultry farms.
A poultry firm owner Mohammad Tahir is extremely dejected as over 500 chicken of his poultry farm had perished. The panchayat officials promptly swung into action and dumped the chickens which perished during the last few days.
Madhepura district magistrate (DM ) Upendra Kumar has dispatched the teams of the animal and fisheries resources department officials to different places and asked them to take firm steps to prevent the avian flu virus from spreading to other parts in the district. Meanwhile, over 300 chickens were culled in Kishanganj district during the last two days, and culling operation continues unabated in Purnia district also where the first symptoms of the avian flu virus surged into the open.
