Bangladesh culls 13,000 chickens after bird flu outbreak
By IANSMonday, February 8, 2010
DHAKA - Bangladesh has culled about 13,000 chickens after fresh outbreak of bird flu in the country last month, officials said Monday.
Ataur Rahman, bird flu control room official, told Xinhua, a total of “12,789 chickens were culled so far this year after fresh outbreak of the avian influenza in commercial farms.”
Of the total, he said, “9,526 birds, including 8,821 in a commercial firm in Dhaka, were culled in the first week of this month.”
In January, when the outbreak of the disease was reported, 3,263 chickens were culled.
Habibur Rahman, director general of Bangladesh’s Fisheries and Live Stock Department, said the department has strengthened its surveillance to contain further spread of the infectious disease.
So far, four districts were affected by bird flu.
Officials, however, said with the rise of temperature in March and April, the risks from the disease would gradually ease.
Bird flu was first detected in Bangladesh in a poultry farm near Dhaka in March 2007.
The disease was later spread to 47 districts between December 2007 and March 2008.
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February 10, 2010: 2:11 pm
Bird flu is a serious illness that affects birds. Especially chickens, that can be spread from birds to humans and that can cause death. Recently the breaking out of bird flu has taken us aback. We could never think of such kind of problem in our country. However thanks to the Almighty that it could not break out in an epidemic form because of the timely intervention of the government and people’s consciousness about the matter. The cause of bird flu in our country could not be detected. It was thought that it might have been carried and spread by the imported chickens from our neighboring countries like Thailand and China. Because the breaking out of bird flu in an epidemic form has been seen in China and Thailand. Poultry farming has had a positive effect on the social economic condition in our country. It helped many rural poor women to break the chain of poverty and see better days to their lives. But the recent breaking out of bird flu has shadowed their smiling faces into gloomy ones and clouded their foreheads. It has emptied their fertile farms and turned the firms into barren hands. We have seen the hearts. However, it is heartening that our government has taken an all out efforts to give loans to the people engaged in poultry farming on easy terms to keep their income generating industry on and to bring about better days and see the gloomy faces glowing with beatific smile and keep their heads above all consuming poverty. |
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