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Backyard raids to stop bird flu


Published on Monday 28 January 2008 09:37

VETERINARY staff in eastern India are capturing chickens in night-time raids on the backyards of homes to surprise villagers unwilling to part with their poultry as an outbreak of bird flu spreads.

Bird flu has spread to 13 of West Bengal's 19 districts, with samples of dead chickens testing positive in two new districts.

Experts fear the H5N1 strain could mutate into a form easily transmitted from person to person.


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