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Despite culling hundreds of thousands of birds over the past 10 months containment of the H5N1 virus in Bangladesh remains an elusive goal.
Jan 13, 2008
Bird flu strikes farm in northeastern Bangladesh
DHAKA - BIRD flu has killed nearly 500 chickens at a poultry farm in northeastern Bangladesh in what officials said on Sunday was the first outbreak of the disease in that area.
The farm is in Moulavibazar district, about 250 km from the capital, said Salehuddin Khan, director of the government's livestock department.
'After the confirmation of bird flu, authorities culled nearly 800 chickens, ducks and birds in a one-kilometre area around the affected farm,' he said.
The H5N1 avian flu virus was first reported near the capital in March last year and has since spread mainly to northern districts, forcing authorities to kill more than 300,000 chickens.
With the latest outbreak, 71 farms in 22 of Bangladesh's 64 districts have been infected with the deadly virus.
