Some 3,066 fowls, ducks and pigeons were culled and 2,385 eggs have been destroyed at Saralia village in Morelganj sub-district in Bangladesh's southern Bagerhat district after detection of avian influenza.
Livestock officers conducted the operation Tuesday night with the help of joint forces after detection H5N1 virus in dead chickens of a poultry farm at the village, private news agency UNB reported Wednesday.
Besides, they also imposed ban on selling, rearing and carrying chickens, ducks and pigeons in and around one kilometer area of the affected farm.
As some 900 chickens of the poultry farm died on Sunday, livestock officials collected the samples of some dead chickens and sent those for laboratory test.
After getting the test report of the bird flu Tuesday night they immediately conducted the drive at two poultry farms and 134 houses in the area.
The avian influenza virus was first detected in a poultry farm in Savar, about 30 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, in March 2007. The situation has been getting worse since last month as the bird flu virus is spreading fast across the country.
The bird flu control room sources said so far 37 out of total 64 districts in the country have been affected by the bird flu.
Source: Xinhua
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