Bird Flu in Maharashtra: Bird flu confirmed in Maharashtra, 8,000 hens to be culled in Parbhani | Pune News
Representative image PUNE/MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray will chair a meeting to review the bird flu situation in the state on Monday. Maharashtra on Sunday had joined seven other states in reporting an outbreak of avian influenza or bird flu. The presence of the H5N1 strain in Maharashtra was confirmed late on Sunday with Bhopal-based National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases finding it in the trachea and spleen samples of dead birds sent from the state for tests even as 11 more crows were found dead in Chembur in Mumbai. Maharashtra animal husbandry commiss...
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