TIL Desk/National/Aurangabad/ Delhi and Maharashtra have confirmed bird flu amid nationwide efforts to contain the spread. The district administration in Maharashtra’s Parbhani has now decided to cull nearly 8,000 birds in Murumba village where these hens died, Collector Deepak Muglikar said.
Earlier, Muglikar on Saturday said around 900 hens had died at a poultry farm, run by a Self-Help Group, in the village and their samples were sent for testing. “The cause of the death has been confirmed as bird flu. Hence, we have decided to cull all the birds in one-km radius of the place where these deaths took place,” the collector said.
The bird flu outbreak has already been confirmed in Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. The central government on Sunday said it has directed zoo managements to submit daily reports to the Central Zoo Authority till their area is declared free from the disease.
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