Birdflu fear looms large over Kolkata
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has formed teams that were monitoring the situation in different parts of the city.
By PTI |
KOLKATA: With parts of this metropolis' suburbs falling under West Bengal's birdflu-affected South 24 Parganas district, the fear of the virus spreading here looms large even as monitoring teams were being engaged to keep the city insulated from the dreaded disease.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has formed teams that were monitoring the situation in different parts of the city.
State Animal Resources Development Minister Anisur Rehman said poultry products from the affected areas would not be allowed to enter Kolkata.
A new case of outbreak of the H5N1 virus was reported from Shamsherganj block of Murshidabad today, raising the total number of affected blocks in the district to 10, District Magistrate Subir Bhadra told PTI.
Thirteen of West Bengal's 19 districts have been named birdflu-hit after West Midnapore and South 24 Parganas were declared affected yesterday.
Culling teams fanned out in eight affected districts to start operations while it was over in Hooghly, Burdwan, Bankura, South Dinajpur and Nadia district.
Fearing infection, Alipore Zoo authorities here have switched the diet of carnivore species from chicken and duck to beef and mutton.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has urged the Centre to provide 50 per cent matching grant for alternative animal husbandry schemes for affected farmers.
In a letter to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, he said over 2.5 million poultry birds in 13 districts had been affected by the avian influenza, of which 85 per cent had already been culled.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has formed teams that were monitoring the situation in different parts of the city.
State Animal Resources Development Minister Anisur Rehman said poultry products from the affected areas would not be allowed to enter Kolkata.
A new case of outbreak of the H5N1 virus was reported from Shamsherganj block of Murshidabad today, raising the total number of affected blocks in the district to 10, District Magistrate Subir Bhadra told PTI.
Thirteen of West Bengal's 19 districts have been named birdflu-hit after West Midnapore and South 24 Parganas were declared affected yesterday.
Culling teams fanned out in eight affected districts to start operations while it was over in Hooghly, Burdwan, Bankura, South Dinajpur and Nadia district.
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Fearing infection, Alipore Zoo authorities here have switched the diet of carnivore species from chicken and duck to beef and mutton.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has urged the Centre to provide 50 per cent matching grant for alternative animal husbandry schemes for affected farmers.
In a letter to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, he said over 2.5 million poultry birds in 13 districts had been affected by the avian influenza, of which 85 per cent had already been culled.
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