Myanmar livestock authorities have taken measures to deal with a fresh bird flu outbreak in the country's southeastern Mon state early this week, sources with the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBVD) said on Sunday.
The measures included culling of over 300 chickens in two poultry farms where H5N1 virus was found.
Local related departments are cooperating in containing the fresh disease against further spreading to 65 other farms nearby where 40,000 chickens are still in good and normal status, the LBVD said.
According to the LBVD, two poultry farms in Thanphyuzayat of the state reported chickens dying abnormally on Tuesday and after a series of testing for days, it was identified with H5N1.
The renewed outbreak of H5N1 in the Mon state came a month after four new cases occurred at farms in three townships of Hmawby, Insein and Bago in June. The residual virus was found during the post-outbreak surveillance period which ran from May 7 to June 9, earlier reports said, adding that during that period, a total of nearly 2,000 chickens were culled for risk prevention.
Bird flu, which broke out in five townships in Yangon over the period from Feb. 28 to March 31 this year, was claimed to have been contained and restrictions on transport and sale of chickens, ducks, quills and their products in those areas were lifted on April 22.
According to official statistics, during the bird flu outbreak period, nearly 2,000 fowls died of the virus with 65,812 poultry from the affected farms and those nearby were culled.
In the fight against the disease, Myanmar has been cooperating with experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and USAID.
According to the Myanmar authorities, no human cases have so far been detected with bird flu virus in the country.
Source: Xinhua
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