PIONEEREDGE NEWS SERVICE | Lalkuan
The culling and deep burial of 1,708 hens was carried out at a poultry farm in Udham Singh Nagar district on Sunday after the confirmation of bird flu. According to official sources, unnatural deaths of some poultry birds took place at a farm in Baikunthpur village at Sitarganj in Udham Singh Nagar district on August 21.
On the directions of the State government, samples were sent to the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal. The lab report received on August 23 confirmed Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the birds. Following this, the district magistrate implemented the Prevention and Control of Infectious and contagious Disease of Animals Act, 2009 to declare a one-kilometre area around the poultry farm as an infected zone while a 10-kilometre area was declared as surveillance zone.
Acting on the district magistrate’s directions on Sunday, personnel of the Animal Husbandry department, Revenue department, police and the Shaktigarh local body reached the poultry farm where the culling and deep burying of 1,708 hens was carried out.
