UNB, Kurigram
After the detection of bird flu, over 1,500 poultry and pigeons were culled in a pre-dawn drive in Bakshipara and Kirshnapur areas of Sadar upazila early on Friday
Sources at the district administration said they sent four dead chickens, taken from one Ayub Ali’s Bakshipara house, to the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) in Savar for laboratory test.
On Thursday, the district administration received a faxed report from BLRI saying that the chickens died of bird flu disease. [Read more]