Hen Flu Alert In Gujarat, four Birds Discovered Lifeless In Surat
Centre on Wednesday mentioned the chook flu outbreak has been reported in 4 states. (Representational)
Ahmedabad:
With the purpose of detecting any imaginable instances of chook flu, the Gujarat Animal Husbandry division has sounded an alert for its district places of work around the state to enhance surveillance and tracking, a minister mentioned on Wednesday.
4 birds have been discovered useless at Madhi village of Surat district on Wednesday, days after the loss of life of 55 birds in Junagadh, state Animal Husbandry Minister Kunvarji Bavaliya mentioned.
The minister, on the other hand, asserted that Gujarat was once nonetheless now not suffering from chook flu.
“As of now, Gujarat does now not have any case of chook flu. On the other hand, after you have an advisory from the Centre on this regard, the entire district headquarters beneath my division had been placed on alert,” Mr Bavaliya mentioned.
“Officers had been requested to paintings with the woodland division to stay a test at the suspected instances of chook flu of their spaces,” he mentioned.
A complete of 55 birds died in Junagadh two days again.
On the other hand, the file in their autopsy held poisoning and now not flu as the rationale.
“These days, 4 crow-like birds have been discovered useless at Madhi in Surat. We have now despatched the carcasses to a Bhopal-based laboratory for additional investigation,” the minister mentioned.
Carcasses of 46 lapwings, 4 geese and 3 ruffs have been discovered by means of locals close to Kharo dam in Junagadh district at the evening of January 2. Later, two of the 4 birds which have been rescued from the world died on Tuesday.
In the meantime, the Ahmedabad Animal Husbandry department swung into motion after you have the alert.
“Following the alert, we’ve got accrued the samples from birds of Kankaria Zoo in addition to from migratory birds and despatched them to the Bhopal-based virology laboratory,” deputy director of Animal Husbandry Suketu Upadhyay mentioned.
As a precautionary measure, the Kankaria Zoo authority sprayed anti-virus medication close to chook cages and steered the zoo keepers to alert the upper government in the event that they spot any useless chook, zoo director RK Sahu mentioned.
The Centre on Wednesday mentioned the chook flu outbreak has been reported in 4 states — Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh- and advisories had been issued to include additional unfold of the an infection in poultry geese, crows and migratory birds.
