Affected areas being sanitised to stop bird flu spread in city

Patna: With bird flu cases emerging in new areas of the state, the Patna district animal husbandry department is adhering to central govt protocols and regularly sanitising affected areas to prevent the spread of the H5N1 virus responsible for the outbreak.
Patna district animal husbandry officer Dr Arun Kumar said on Monday that after culling all poultry within a 1km radius of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in Patna on Saturday, the depar...