Dead crow from Chanda, duck from Wardha test bird flu +ve

Nagpur/Chandrapur: More districts of Vidarbha are now reporting bird flu cases. First bird flu case was detected at Manora village in Ballarpur tehsil of the district after one of the three crows found dead here has been found positive to the disease in the test carried out at Disease Investigation Section (DIS), Pune.
Apart from it, sample of a duck reared in a farm at Hinganghat tehsil of Wardha district has also tested positive for H5N8 strain of avian flu.This is the first case of domestic duck being tested positive, said sources. The area where duck samples were found positive has been declared as infected zone, with all birds within a radius of 1 km to be culled, the press release said.
Reports of a wild duck found dead near Bor forest also in Wardha are awaited, said sources.
Meanwhile, samples of poultry that had died in Yavatmal have tested positive.
Commeting on Manora sample testing positive, Chandrapur zilla parishad chief executive officer Rahul Kardile said the \administration is seeking re-confirmation from National Institute of Veterinary Research at Bhopal and its report is awaited.
Kardile informed that there had been suspected deaths of chickens at poultry farms in Pirli in Bhadrawati tehsil and Bailampur in Rajura tehsil. Animal husbandry department had sent the samples for bird flu testing to Pune in both the cases.
The tests reports for the two samples sent from Pirli village have been found negative. However, test reports of four samples sent from Bailampur are still awaited.
Kardile called upon people not to panic and fall prey to rumours about bird flu.
On Wednesday, 390 poultry birds were reported to have died in Yavatmal, apart from 39 and 44 in Amravati and Nagpur, respectively.