Alert sounded as bird flu cases reported from Jammu and Srinagar

Authorities on Monday said in Srinagar that the samples of recently dead crows sent for the tests have shown that they died because of bird flu. Earlier officials said that bird flu was detected in Udhampur and Poonch areas of Jammu region.

According to the senior officials of Animal Husbandry Department, Jammu all the precautionary measures, including culling of birds, have been put in place in these two districts in order to stop spread of the infection to the other areas.

It is in place to mention that in the first week of January J&K government sounded an alert and started collecting samples of the birds including from the poultry farms since in Himachal Pradesh cases of bird flu were reported.

District administration of Srinagar city in a tweet on Monday said that dead crows lifted from the area near Delhi Public School at Athwajan and the Flood Spill Channel at Peerbagh have tested positive for avian influenza—H5N8 strain—as per a report received from the ICAR-NISHAD Bhopal.

In another tweet officials of Srinagar said “Now in accordance with the stipulated guidelines, a 10-kilometer radius area around each of the said locations has been declared as an alert zone—where among other measures surveillance and sampling will be conducted to ascertain and prevent the spread”.

Noor-ul- Qamrain

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