Suspect H5N1 in Orissa India
Recombinomics Commentary 22:52
February 10, 2008
Official sources , including KC Sasmal, chief district veterinary officer confirmed reports of bird deaths at a farm near Kesinga. "At least 55 birds have died over two days",he said.
The above comments describe suspect H5N1 in Orissa (see satellite maps here here here). Orissa has not confirmed H5N1, although there have been excessive poultry deaths in border areas and a precautionary cull has been ordered. The deaths described above are well south of the border with West Bengal, and would cause alam if H5N1 was verified.
The level of H5N1 in west Bengal poultry and wild birds suggests that the culling in West Bengal and Bangladesh will not prevent H5N1 from spreading into adjacent regions, with or without border culling.
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