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While Pakistan's government and their poultry industry have done much to try to quell any fears over bird flu in that nation these past few weeks, new reports of outbreaks continue to emerge.
Mansehra is a town in the NWFP (North West Frontier Province), the same province that saw an undetermined number of human infections in November of last year.
Today Pakistan, amid much political upheaval, is holding their national elections.
MANSEHRA: 5,000 chickens culled in Mansehra
By Our Correspondent
MANSEHRA, Feb 17: At least 5,000 chickens have been culled at a poultry farm in the Malipur area after a report of the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, confirmed presence of H5N1 virus.The district livestock officer of Mansehra Dr Ali Akber Khan told Dawn that after the confirmation of the H5N1 virus by the NIH laboratory, over 5,000 chickens were culled in the poultry farm.
He said that the infected poultry farm had been sealed, while vaccine was being administered in other areas to check the spread of the bird flu virus.
Responding to a question, Dr Akber said that fortunately no worker of the said poultry farm had been infected by the virus.
Meanwhile, sources in the provincial health department told this correspondent that a team of the World Health Organisation, which was already monitoring the situation in Hazara region, had reached Mansehra to review the situation.
