The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday said that it has deployed multi-disciplinary teams Alappuzha and Kottayam districts in Kerala and Haryana’s Panchkula district, which have been affected by the avian influenza. Thousands of birds, including migratory ones, have died since December across different states.
In Haryana, four lakh poultry birds have died in unusual circumstances in the last 10 days in 20 poultry farms in the Panchkula district. In Kerala, around 12,000 ducks have died over the last few days. H5N1 avian influenza virus was confirmed in five of the eight samples tested in the state. H5N1 is a type of influenza virus that causes a highly infectious, severe respiratory disease in birds called avian influenza, according to the World Health Organization.
The two teams, comprising experts from National Center for Disease Control, National Institute of Virology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh and New Delhi’s Dr RML…