Bird flu confirmed in Bhaktapur poultry farm

BHAKTAPUR, JUL 27 - Authorities have confirmed an outbreak of Bird flu at a poultry farm at Sipadol in Bhaktapur district on Saturday. A report on the test conducted on the chickens samples had confirmed the disease in the poultry farm at Sipadol-2 and Sipadol-9. The test was conducted by Central Veterinary Laboratory in the Capital after some 5,000 chickens died in the farm. There are some 9,500 chickens in the farm. A team of Department of Livestock Services has been culling the infected chickens in the farm. Authorities, however, suspected that the infected birds might have been sold to the market for consumption.  Such suspicion was raised after they found that there were low numbers of remaining chickens in the farm.