The New Nation - Internet Edition

Our Correspondent, Netrokona

An incident of outbreak of bird flu virus has been reported from a poultry farm at Ananda Bazar area of Netrakona district town here on Saturday night. Local Official sources here said, after receiving a confirmation report of outbreaking bird flu virus in the farm from the District Livestock Department, number of four separate culling teams under the supervision of Joint Forces and District Administration and livestock department conducted operation simultaneously in around the one kilometre area of the poultry farm on Saturday night and culled some 1539 chickens, 136 ducks and 94 pigeons from different poultry farms and residential houses.

Earlier, district livestock department sent two dead chickens of the bird flue virus affected poultry farm to the Central Livestock Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Dhaka where the dead chickens of the farm were tested positive for the disease, the sources said.

Meanwhile, all the concerned officials including the officials of Livestock Department were put on alert and advised for taking all necessary preventive measures to check spreading of bird flu virous by the higher authority, the official sources added.