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Bird flu in Sikkim

KOLKATA: There has been an outbreak of bird flu in the Ravangla area of Sikkim’s south district, Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Animal Husbandry K. Subba, told The Hindu over telephone on Monday.

“Samples of 33 dead poultry birds had been sent to the High Security Disease Laboratory in Bhopal for tests. That the deaths were caused by bird flu was officially confirmed on Sunday,” Ms. Subba said.

Steps are being taken for the culling of birds in the affected region.

“There is a proposal for destroying about 20,000 birds but since there is no report of the disease spreading we will determine the final numbers to be culled after two or three days,” she added.

Steps are also being taken to prevent the supply of poultry products from the Ravangla area to other parts of the State. “We have already banned all imports of poultry birds from other States since bird flu was reported in Assam more than a month ago,” Ms. Subba said.

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