Bird Flu in India :

Bird Flu in India :

Officials said on Monday that bird flu had entered Maharashtra in large numbers following test reports confirming the death of several hundred chickens and other birds due to the H5N1 avian influenza pandemic commonly known as bird flu in five districts last week.

According to the report of the ICAR-National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases (ICAR-NIHSAD), Bhopal, tests of chicken, crows, parrots, herons and lake egrets have tried positive for the infection.

Pawan Khandge, Parbhani District Disaster Management Officer, said blood samples from 800 chickens that died in the village of Murrumba on Friday were sent to the government veterinary college here and later ICAR-NIHSAT reports proved avian influenza.

The concerned area specialists are visiting the influenced town for a review and later Collector Deepak M. Mugalikar will take the choice to pronounce a control zone and other appropriate safeguards to forestall additionally spread of the fowl influenza," Khandge told IANS.

The conceivable reason for diseases in people is the point at which they interact with winged creatures with the infections and enough infections get into an individual's eyes, nose or mouth, or is breathed in through the discharges of fowls," said Kunal Kothari, Senior Physician, Internal Medicine, SMS Medical College in Jaipur.

Transmission of bird flu from one person to another is very rare and the data are not limited, inefficient and durable, but as a precaution we should all be wary of public health advice, ”Kothari added.