Uttar Pradesh became the seventh state in the country where bird flu was confirmed on Saturday even as culling began in poultry farms of Haryana’s Panchkula and reports of more birds found dead in the last 24 hours poured in from Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Kerala and Maharashtra. So far, bird flu has been confirmed in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal. The Kanpur Zoo was closed on Saturday after the avian influenza virus was confirmed in two red jungle fowls that were found dead earlier this week. Between January 2 and 7, four red jungle fowls died while six had been culled at the zoo on suspicion of having the dreaded avian disease. “The lab report that came late on Saturday evening confirmed bird flu in two of the dead fowls following which the zoo campus has been closed,” deputy director, Kanpur Zoo, AK Singh, told TOI.