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Nepal asks for India's help to control spread of bird flu By Shirish B Pradhan
Kathmandu, Jan 17 (PTI) Kathmandu has sought New Delhi's
help to control spread of bird flu and asked India to stop the
export of poultry products after the outbreak of the disease
was confirmed in the eastern Nepal's Mechinagar Municipality
bordering India's eastern state of West Bengal.
During a meeting with Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh
Sood Friday, Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda sought India's
help in controlling spread of the disease, embassy spokesman
Chhiring W Sherpa said.
Sherpa told PTI that they also discussed a wide range of
issues of mutual interest.
Matters relating to controlling bird flu and providing
additional hydro electric power to Nepal, which is currently
facing acute power shortage, were the key issues which figured
during the talks, officials said.
They said that Nepal had also asked India to stop the
export of chickens and other poultry products.
As 11 chickens died in Ward No 10 of Mechinagar
Municipality near Kakarbhitta, samples of chickens were sent
to OIE, Reference Laboratory, Weybridge, UK on January 11,
which tested positive, the officials said.
Earlier, the samples were tested in the Laboratory of
Department of Livestock Service in Kathmandu.
The cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Friday
confirmed that avian flu was found in Nepal and declared three
kilometer area surrounding the Municipality as emergency
region and instructed for prompt action to check the spread of
the disease.
The government has decided to cull 13,000 birds of the
affected area within five days, starting today, and it will
also compensate the poultry owners.
After the news of first instance of bird flu spread in
the capital, many people have stopped buying poultry products.
However, no bird flu symptoms have been detected in
humans so far.
"The government is planning to monitor the health of the
people in the affected area," said Tek Bahadur Thapa,
secretary of Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives.
A health and surveillance team has also been dispatched
to the affected area from Kathmandu to tackle the situation.
Kathmandu has earlier also banned the import poultry
products from New Delhi as the bird flu was found in various
districts of India bordering Nepal. PTI SBP
help to control spread of bird flu and asked India to stop the
export of poultry products after the outbreak of the disease
was confirmed in the eastern Nepal's Mechinagar Municipality
bordering India's eastern state of West Bengal.
During a meeting with Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh
Sood Friday, Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda sought India's
help in controlling spread of the disease, embassy spokesman
Chhiring W Sherpa said.
Sherpa told PTI that they also discussed a wide range of
issues of mutual interest.
Matters relating to controlling bird flu and providing
additional hydro electric power to Nepal, which is currently
facing acute power shortage, were the key issues which figured
during the talks, officials said.
They said that Nepal had also asked India to stop the
export of chickens and other poultry products.
As 11 chickens died in Ward No 10 of Mechinagar
Municipality near Kakarbhitta, samples of chickens were sent
to OIE, Reference Laboratory, Weybridge, UK on January 11,
which tested positive, the officials said.
Earlier, the samples were tested in the Laboratory of
Department of Livestock Service in Kathmandu.
The cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Friday
confirmed that avian flu was found in Nepal and declared three
kilometer area surrounding the Municipality as emergency
region and instructed for prompt action to check the spread of
the disease.
The government has decided to cull 13,000 birds of the
affected area within five days, starting today, and it will
also compensate the poultry owners.
After the news of first instance of bird flu spread in
the capital, many people have stopped buying poultry products.
However, no bird flu symptoms have been detected in
humans so far.
"The government is planning to monitor the health of the
people in the affected area," said Tek Bahadur Thapa,
secretary of Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives.
A health and surveillance team has also been dispatched
to the affected area from Kathmandu to tackle the situation.
Kathmandu has earlier also banned the import poultry
products from New Delhi as the bird flu was found in various
districts of India bordering Nepal. PTI SBP
