India confirmed yesterday that the latest outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the remote northeast was the H5N1 strain, the first case reported in the populous Asian nation in a year.
Government workers plan to slaughter about 150,000 poultry in a 5-km radius around the affected farm in Manipur state, which lies on the border with Myanmar.
Health workers will check for signs of flu among thousands of people around the poultry farm in Chingmeirong village on the outskirts of Imphal, the state capital 1,700 km from New Delhi.
Source: China Daily
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