Odisha has managed to overcome the bird flu scare last month by selectively carrying out culling at two places in the coastal and northern part of the State.

Following a marginal rise in temperature, not a single positive avian influenza case had been reported during the past fortnight.

The Centre had ordered culling in and around Keranga village in Khurda district and Bahanada village in Mayurbhanj district during the second and third week of January. While 31,886 poultry birds were culled in 3 km radius of Keranga — where the first H5N1 virus in a hen was detected — 11,216 poultry birds were culled at Bahanada.

When researchers of the Animal Disease Research Institute (ADRI), Cuttack, went to map areas that witnessed sporadic crow deaths in the last week of December, fears of avian influenza started creeping in..........Read More

Source: The Hindu