High-Path Bird Flu Returns to Bangladesh
BANGLADESH - There has been one new outbreak of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) at a farm near Dhaka.
The veterinary authority has sent Follow Up Report No. 26 dated 10 January to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
The outbreak started on 1 January at a commercial farm at Narisha Khamarbari in Dhaka. Of the flock of 6,500 birds, 530 died and the rest have since been destroyed.
The presence of the H5N1 sub-type of the virus has been confirmed.
The last report of HPAI in Bangladesh was in June 2010.
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