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In what is rapidly becoming an every day occurrence, we are hearing of new outbreaks in poultry in Bangladesh.
This time, at a poultry farm near the Indian Border, which is likely to spark new charges and counter charges between India and Bangladesh over the origins of this outbreak.
Bangladesh hit by bird flu outbreak
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Livestock officials slaughtered more than 27,000 chickens and ducks in northern Bangladesh after bird flu was confirmed at a poultry farm near the border with India, a report said Friday.
Officials in India's West Bengal state, which borders Bangladesh, have been struggling to contain that country's worst-ever outbreak of the virulent H5N1 bird flu virus.
Several hundred chickens died at the poultry farm in Dinajpur district, 170 miles north of Dhaka, and laboratory tests confirmed that the H5N1 virus was responsible, the United News of Bangladesh news agency reported.
Local livestock official Sydur Rahman said more than 27,000 chickens and ducks were killed and more than 60,000 eggs were destroyed on Thursday and Friday in an attempt to halt the spread of the virus, the agency said.
Local officials were not immediately available for comment Friday.
On Thursday, the government warned the Department of Livestock that more precautions were needed to prevent the disease from spreading.
Experts say any widespread outbreak could be disastrous for Bangladesh because of its dense population and poorly equipped public health care system.
Bird flu has been confirmed in at least 30 of Bangladesh's 64 districts and has struck more than 97 farms since it was first detected in February last year. More than 350,000 birds have been slaughtered, according to the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock.
No cases of human infection have been reported.
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