Days after cases of bird flu were reported in Maharashtra’s Thane district, the infection was detected at a poultry farm in Palghar district’s Vasai-Virar region. A few of the poultry farm’s birds had died, and their samples were sent for testing.
According to Palghar’s district veterinary officer, Dr Prashant Kamble, the test results confirmed that the birds had been infected with the H5N1 virus.
Dr Kamble did not specify the number of birds that died at the poultry farm and said that the situation is not serious.
Bird flu cases were discovered in Thane district earlier this week after around 100 birds died at a poultry farm in Vehloli village, Shahapur tehsil. Their samples were sent to a laboratory in Pune for testing, and the results confirmed that they died from H5N1 avian influenza.
More than 25,000 poultry birds have been culled in Shahapur after the Thane district administration issued a notification for culling of birds in poultry farms within a one-kilometer radius of the affected farm.