Over 27,000 chickens were culled and 60,427 eggs destroyed in Bangladesh's Dinajpur district, 285 km northwest of capital Dhaka, from Thursday to Friday after detection of bird flu.
District Livestock officer Dr Sydur Rahman was quoted by private news agency UNB as saying that several hundred chickens died in a farm last week they collected the samples of dead chickens and sent those to lab for test.
As bird flu virus was detected in the chickens some 27,478 chickens, 37 ducks and five pigeons of one km area were culled and the eggs destroyed.
An emergency meeting will be held on Saturday to check the spread of the bird flu virus in the district, the news agency reported.
Source:Xinhua
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