The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Another 69,862 fowls were culled and 2,35,408 eggs destroyed in the country's three districts due to infection of avian influenza virus.

Livestock Department's personnel yesterday slaughtered 58,130 chickens including 37,000 chicks and destroyed 2,26,813 eggs from one single poultry farm in Mymensingh.

Bird flu infection was detected at the farm on February 23, said the bird flu control room official.

In Chittagong, a team of livestock department culled 2,333 chickens, pigeons and ducks from a farm at Boalkhali upazila. The team also destroyed 140 eggs from neighbouring houses, he added.

Besides, in Pabna, 2,804 fowls and 8,455 eggs were destroyed from a farm in Atghoria upazila and 300 ducks, pigeons and other domestic fowls were culled from nearby houses yesterday.

Following the detection of bird flu in the farm, the livestock department sent out a team to cull the fowls in the farm.

Bird flu, which broke out in March last year, became devastating early this year forcing thousands of farms to close and tens of thousands of people jobless.

So far, 10,58,778 fowls have been culled and 14,56,551 eggs destroyed in 44 out of 64 districts of the country, according to the bird flu control room.