Bird flu found in Bheri Municipality

JAJARKOT: Bird flu has been found in the ‘Layers breed of chickens reared by farmers of Bheri Municipality-3 in Jajarkot district.

Senior Livestock Development Officer at the Livestock Service Department, Chandra Dhakal said bird flu infection was confirmed through PCR tests on samples collected from the chicken. The PCR test was done at the Central Animal Disease Investigation Laboratory.

With this, bird flu has been found in the country five times since Magh. The fowl disease was spotted twice at Tarkeshwor municipality, ward no. 1 and 7 in Kathmandu and once in Birendranagar municipality of Surkhet before this.

Dhakal said human resources have been mobilised from the centre, province and local level for preventing the disease from spreading to other places from that area. He also said that a team of veterinarians from the Animal Disease Investigation Laboratory Surkhet has been dispatched to Jajarkot to facilitate in containing the disease.

The domesticated fowls as well as other materials like feed and egg crates likely to transmit the disease have been destroyed in the area where the disease has been found. The area has also been disinfected.

According to Dhakal, 300 Broiler chicken, 331 Layers chicken and 70 local breed fowls have been culled while 883 eggs, 251 kilogrammes of feed and 200 egg crates have been destroyed in the area.

Bird flu was first seen in Nepal in 2009. -RSS