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During 2007 and the first half of 2008 we received almost daily reports of B2B (Bird to bird) outbreaks of bird flu in Bangladesh. While the number of reports has tapered off in recent months, they haven’t gone away completely.
Today, we’ve a report of the bird flu virus (presumably H5N1) being detected near the nation’s capital of Dhaka.
Over 2,300 chickens culled in Bangladesh following detection of bird flu
www.chinaview.cn
2009-04-17 13:46:10
DHAKA, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Over 2,300 chickens were culled in a poultry farm in Bangladesh's Savar, about 30 km north of capital Dhaka, on Wednesday night following detection of bird flu, leading newspaper The Daily Star reported Friday.
Sources were quoted as saying some chickens died at the poultry farm in Savar in the last few days.
When samples of the dead chicken were sent to central disease investigation laboratory in the capital, bird flu was primarily detected in the chicken on Wednesday.
According to a World Bank release in March this year, the first bird flu outbreak in Bangladesh was in March 2007 and continued till July 2007. The second wave came from September 2007 till May 2008 and the third spell started in September 2008.
The release said the overall bird flu situation in Bangladesh this year has stabilized, adding Bangladesh remains a high-risk country for bird flu outbreak.
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