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Culling operation `practically over' in Jalgaon, says Centre

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NEW DELHI: With the culling of 91, 000 birds in the avian influenza affected talukas over four days, the culling operation in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra has been declared "practically over."

"The initial estimate of poultry to be culled was 75, 000, but since most of the fowls were in the backyard sector, the estimate has gone up slightly. Only in commercial farms the number of birds would be exact," the Union Secretary Department of Animal Husbandry, P.M.A. Hakeem told The Hindu here on Sunday.

According to sources, an eleven-year-old boy who had handled poultry was administered tamiflu in Jalgaon district. "Although he had no respiratory symptoms, he was given tamiflu," the sources said adding that there was no cause for panic.

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