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Two bird flu-testing labs for State
Special Correspondent
HYDERABAD: Two modern World Bank-aided bird flu diagnostic laboratories will be set up in Hyderabad and Vijayawada this financial year.
Animal Husbandry Director L. Mohan told The Hindu on Sunday that the State was geared up to tackle an outbreak of bird flu.
No case of flu
Denying any case of bird flu was reported from Chittoor district, he said the department officials had found after a survey that there was no mortality of birds.
The District Collector had also conveyed to him that there was no case of bird flu.
He said all precautionary measures were being taken by officials and farmers as the State had huge poultry industry. At any given time, the number of birds in AP would vary between eight and 12 crore.
Samples were being sent every month to the Southern Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Bangalore, to test the sera for bird flu.
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