Click to play videoNew Delhi: A high alert has been sounded in Manipur for bird flu after 130 samples tested positive for the H5N1 virus.
The bird flu outbreak in Manipur has been confirmed by the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal and the National Institute of Virology in Pune.
Experts have been asked to widen surveillance in the state after it was confirmed that 133 chickens out of 144 at a village in Imphal district died due to bird flu earlier this month.
This could be the third report of avian flu in the country and the first since April last year, when lakhs of birds were culled in Maharashtra.
Meanwhile, 21 people in Imphal are under surveillance for suspected bird flu. Further samples have collected from within the range of five kms from where the infected birds were discovered.
However, these samples tested tested negative on Wednesday.
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