The state has recorded its first cases of avian influenza of the year. Several poultry birds, including ducks, owned by a charitable trust in Velholi, Shahpur (Thane district), nearly 100 km from Mumbai, got infected and died in a span of a week, said officials from the state animal husbandry department.
The infection was detected after over 300 birds died “mysteriously”, prompting local animal husbandry experts to send specimens to a state laboratory in Pune and later to the National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases Laboratory in Bhopal. The lab results detected the H5N1 strain of avian flu.
Thane collector Rajesh Narvekar said the infection is contained to a small area, which has been declared as infected area, and restrictions have been imposed on the movement of all poultry-related traffic till further notice. “There is no reason for residents to worry,” he said.
This story is from the February 19, 2022 edition of The Times of India Mumbai.
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