More HPAI Outbreaks in Chhukha District

BHUTAN - Bhutan has reported another outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Chhukha district in backyard scavenging poultry.
calendar icon 12 March 2012
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Follow-up report No. 5 was sent to the World Organisation for Animal Health on Friday, 9 March. The new outbreak has occurred in a backyard scavenging poultry unit with the death of one adult local poultry. The dead poultry tested positive to PCR.

A total of 1050 birds were found susceptible, out of which one case was identified. 131 birds were destroyed.

The source of the outbreak remains inconclusive.

Further Reading

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