New bird deaths reported in east India (AP via Yahoo! News)
Health officials Thursday investigated new bird deaths in eastern India to check whether bird flu was spreading to additional areas despite a poultry cull aimed at curbing the disease.
Health officials Thursday investigated new bird deaths in eastern India to check whether bird flu was spreading to additional areas despite a poultry cull aimed at curbing the disease.
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India and Bangladesh searched for new cases of bird flu Thursday as authorities pressed ahead with plans to slaughter hundreds of thousands of birds in a bid to keep the outbreak from spreading, officials said.
Villagers at the centre of a bird flu outbreak in India’s east refused to hand over their chickens and ducks for culling on Thursday, hampering efforts to stamp out the disease in poultry.
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Veterinary workers began killing thousands of chickens in eastern India on Wednesday following what the World Health Organisation (WHO) said was the worst outbreak of bird flu in the country.