The Maharashtra government on Thursday confirmed a bird flu outbreak in the state as poultry birds at a Thane-based farm died after being infected with the avian influenza A virus, and urged people not to panic. According to animal husbandry commissioner Sachindra Pratap Singh, there were approximately 200 poultry birds at the farm in Velhevali in Thane district’s Shahapur tehsil. When a few of the birds died on February 2, 5, and 10, the farm did not initially report the deaths. After it reported the deaths on February 10, samples were collected on February 11 and 13 and assessed at the animal husbandry department’s disease investigation section in Pune. The samples were also sent to the Indian Council for Agricultural Research’s National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal. Singh said that containment measures had been taken within a one-kilometre radius of the farm and that 23,800 birds counted. Arrangements for culling have been made as per protocol. Sanitization measures are also in place, Singh said. All movement has been stopped so that nothing can escape that zone. A bird flu outbreak was earlier reported at a poultry research farm in Bihar, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health. This is the second year running that Maharashtra has reported avian influenza. Between December 2020 and March 2021, the state reported the disease while the first bird flu outbreak was in 2006 in Nandurbar, which was the first in the country as well. As per protocol, all poultry birds and eggs within a one-kilometre radius of the affected area have to be destroyed. During the last outbreak, Maharashtra culled more than 10 lakh birds and destroyed more than 60 lakh eggs. 



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