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Bird flu breaks out in India's West Bengal state
Sep 20, 2011, 10:04 GMT
New Delhi - Indian authorities Tuesday confirmed an outbreak of avian influenza in the eastern state of West Bengal.
The government said local agencies had been notified about the outbreak in the affected area located in the central district of Nadia.
The government also ordered culling, the Ministry of Agriculture said.
The ministry said poultry samples collected from two villages in the district had tested positive for bird flu.
Culling was announced within a radius of three kilometres of the infected area. Surveillance was ordered in surrounding areas up to 10 kilometres away.
The last outbreak of bird-flu in India occurred in February in the remote north-eastern state of Tripura. The country was declared free from the disease on July 4.
India has seen major outbreaks of bird flu since 2007 but not yet reported any cases of human infections with the H5N1 virus.
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