Kangra:
Around 1,700 migratory birds, most of them rod-headed geese, have been found dead under mysterious circumstances in and around Himachal Pradesh’s Pong Dam Lake in Kangra district, prompting authorities to suspend tourism. in the zone. The sale and purchase of poultry has also been banned in some parts of the district as a precaution against the possibility of an outbreak of bird flu. Three states in the country have detected cases of Avian Influenza in recent days.
Rakesh Kumar Prajapati, the Kangra District Magistrate, has ordered that no people or livestock be allowed within a one kilometer radius of the depot until further notice. A surveillance zone with a radius of nine kilometers around the body of water has also been established to monitor the incident.
Prajapati has prohibited the slaughter, sale, purchase and export of poultry, poultry, fish of any breed and their related products, including eggs, meat, chicken, etc., in the Fatehpur, Dehra, Jawali and Indora subdivisions of the district , an official reading order.
Exercising his powers under Sections 34 of the Disaster Management Act of 2005, the official said stores that sell these products would also remain closed in these four subdivisions, the PTI news agency reported.
Avian influenza is a severe and highly infectious respiratory disease in birds caused by the H5N1 influenza virus, which can occasionally infect humans as well.
On Monday, the Kerala government confirmed that cases of the H5N8 strain of avian influenza have been found in Alappuzha and Kottayam. About 12,000 ducks have died in the affected areas in recent days, while another 36,000 are likely to be culled, a state minister told NDTV.
In Rajasthan, hundreds of crows have been found dead. The virus was confirmed in dead crows in Jhalawar district and many other cities, including Jaipur, authorities said.
Cases of influenza were also found in Madhya Pradesh.
With PTI inputs
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