No cases in BBMP limits, but strict vigil on:
Chief Health Officer
Sanitation work at the Central Poultry
Development Organisation (CPDO) at Hesaraghatta — where at least 3,600 turkeys
reportedly have died of avian influenza in the last fortnight — is on even as
more blood samples have been sent to the Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal
and the Institute of Animal Health and Veterinary Biologicals here.
Focus on bird litter
Apart from blood, authorities are now checking
water, birdfeed, bird litter and feather samples with a special focus on bird
litter, which spreads the virus fast, sources said. While no fresh cases of
bird death due to avian influenza have been reported, a strict vigil has been
kept on other birds at the CPDO, which has about 19,000 poultry, 350 emus and
13,500 ducks. Of the turkeys, the remaining 700 or so have been culled.
“Sanitation work has been taken up at the turkey
unit and the cleaning is expected to be completed within the next two days,” a
senior CPDO official told The Hindu, without elaborating much.
With the sanitation work under way, including
sprinkling of DDT, the CPDO has barred visitors while employees continued their
work wearing masks and caps. On Saturday too, veterinarians were taking random
blood samples from the birds.
Arvind Jannu, Principal Secretary, Department of
Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, said so far the virus had been contained within
the farm and authorities were reviewing the situation daily. Surveillance teams
were going around a 10-km radius of the CPDO, declared as alert zone. Poultry
farms in this zone had been directed not to get any new birds.
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