Bangladesh reports new bird flu outbreak

Authorities in Bangladesh have culled nearly 10,000 chickens in five districts as a fresh outbreak of bird flu has been detected in the country, according to a senior government official.
“We have detected avian influenza, known as H5N1, in four commercial poultry production farms and a household in five districts so far this month," said Muhammad Salehuddin Khan, director of Bangladesh's Fisheries and Live Stock Department."Some 9,950 birds on the farms and in the household and nearby areas of the country's western Natore, central Gazipur, eastern Narsingdi, and northern Gaibandha and Kurigram districts were culled this month," he said."We have taken special steps to stem the outbreak of the disease, and we are asking farmers to adopt more preventive measures," he said.
Muhammad said his department is yet to confirm the sources of fresh attacks of the disease, "but it may be due to germs of bird flu remained as we faced huge outbreak last winter," he said.However, he added that there had been no report of human infection of the disease in Bangladesh to date.