Bird flu hits Guwahati, panic spreads

Additional District Magistrate of Kamrup C P Ramchairy informed that sale of poultry products had been banned and some trucks carrying eggs coming to Guwahati had been stopped.

Culling operation began from this morning triggering panic in the city. Government spokesman Himanta Biswa Sarma, however, assured the people that the situation was under control.

The dreaded Avian flu had spread to several new areas in the state.

According to official sources, the virus had been found in the poultry populations of Municipal Ward Number six of Dibrugarh, Jalah village of Bejera area in Kamrup district, Khanapara Central Seed Rearing Farm here of the Veterinary Department and Nalbari village of Chirang district.

The Kamrup (Metro) district administration today prohibited the movement, sale, purchase and transportation of poultry and all types of poultry products, either in cooked or raw form within the district area.

But sale has been going on all over. Meanwhile, culling operations in the affected areas of Kamrup (Rural), Kamrup (Metro), Barpeta and Nalbari districts were on, while in the Hajo revenue circle area of Kamrup district, disinfection operations were on.

Asked for their observation on the rapid spread of the disease, experts here suspected that migratory birds might have spread the virus and in cases of the sites where wetlands are not located in the adjacent areas, the virus might have spread from the birds transported from the affected areas.

-- (UNI) -- 11CA11.xml

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