# 2770
I'll confess, I'm not exactly sure what `fully under control' really means. It sounds reassuring, which I'm sure is the point. But it is a fairly non-specific statement.
My assumption is they've completed culling and have gone a number of days without any new poultry die offs.
Nepal's first reported outbreak of bird flu was marred by numerous conflicting news stories, some of which contained inflammatory reports of suspected human cases (see Conflicting Reports Out Of Nepal).
Some of these rumors appear to have been sparked by the precautionary hospitalization of 3 people exposed to infected birds.
If Nepal can go 90 days without a recurrence, they can declare their nation bird flu free.
Bird flu fully under control: Officials
Himalayan News Service
Kathmandu, February 9:
Officials today claimed that bird flu was fully under control due to the effective performance of the rapid response teams deployed for the task. Jhapa district, which saw the avian flu outbreak, however, is under a three-month observation.
Dr Manas Kumar Banerjee, coordinator and director of Avian Influenza Control Project at the Department of Health Services, today said not a single case of bird flu had been diagnosed in humans even though three persons were kept under observation for a week on suspicion of contracting the deadly flu.
Dr Banerjee said they were well prepared to contain any possible outbreak of bird flu in the country.
Prabhakar Pathak, director, Department of Livestock Services, informed that 23,947 chickens, 4,931 eggs, 329 pigeons, 401 ducks, 345 kg of poultry feed, 12 parrots and other birds were culled in to contain the outbreak. He said 109 samples had been collected for tests.
