An alert has been sounded in Bokaro district following the bird flu cases reported during the past few days in five states. The District Animal Husbandry Department convened an urgent meeting and issued an alert.
Rapid Response Team has been formed in all the 9 blocks of the district in a bid to the prevention of bird flu, informed Manoj Mani, District Animal Husbandry officer. “Periodic test samples are being collected by the officials involved in this team to prevent infection,” he added. Deputy Commissioner Bokaro Rajesh Singh has instructed the officials of the Health Department, Agriculture, and Forest Department to be alert and work with mutual coordination in view of the risk of bird flu. He said, there is a need for special vigilance and monitoring of patients or individuals coming in contact with all Poultry Farm and Domestic birds like Pigeons, Cocks, Crows and Ducks in the district.
DC appealed mass to take extra precautions form Coronavirus infection as well as bird flu in a bid to keep your family safe.
The symptoms of Bird Flu include a gradual fever, bleeding from the nose, frequent phlegm, runny nose, headache, body ache, lower abdominal pain, throat swelling and soreness, vomiting and diarrhea, breathing problems, infections, as well as eye infections, informed a health department official.
To prevent Bird Flu, stay away from dead birds, do not eat non-vegetarian foods in the affected areas, use a face mask and seek medical advice immediately if symptoms occur, he said.