Culling of birds continues in West Bengal's Coochbehar district.Coochbehar (WB), Feb 4 (ANI): Culling operations are continuing in two bird flu affected villages in West Bengal's Coochbehar district. Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying dairying, business of producing, processing, and distributing milk and milk products. Ninety percent of the world's milk is obtained from cows; the remainder comes from goats, buffaloes, sheep, reindeer, yaks, and other ruminants. and Fisheries has notified avian influenza outbreak in two villages -- Uttar Dankoba and Nagar
Central Rapid Response Team of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will reach here by tomorrow. So far 689 birds have been culled. 85 animal husbandry workers involved in culling activity have been medically examined and they are on Chemoprophylaxis chemoprophylaxis /che·mo·pro·phy·lax·is/ (-pro?fi-lak´sis) prevention of disease by means of a chemotherapeutic agent. che·mo·pro·phy·lax·is n. Disease prevention by use of chemicals or drugs. . Active house-to-house human surveillance has been started. In 0-3 km area, the total population is about 40,000. On Monday, a population of 3325 has been covered. No case of URI Uri, in the Bible Uri (y  `rī), in the Bible.1 Father of Bezaleel (1.) 2 Father of Geber (2.) 3 Porter. with fever has been identified. In the 3-10 km area, the population is covered in phases. The total population is about 1,00,000. On Monday, a population of 11,150 was covered. No cases of fever with URI have been detected. In the identified health facility, ten cases with URI and fever have been detected but none of them had exposure history to infected poultry. The State Government has adequate stock of Oseltamivir and personal protective equipments. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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