The Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy sent a letter to the Chief Secretary of Jharkhand informing about the spread of bird flu in Ranchi and advised to take precautions.
The ministry urged the Chief Secretary to immediately launch a campaign for the prevention and control of bird flu under the 'Animal Husbandry Action Plan-2021'.
There has been news of bird flu spreading in the poultry farm located at the Veterinary College of Birsa Agricultural University (BAU). About 150 chickens and about a dozen quails have died in this incident. Symptoms of diseases were seen in the Chinese chickens kept in the poultry farm and they died
Immediately after this, the Pathology Department of the Veterinary College sent samples to the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSD) located in Bhopal. Avian influenza (H5N1) i.e. bird flu has been confirmed in the investigation. NIHSD immediately informed BAU, Veterinary College and the Central Ministry about this serious situation.
After this, the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy sent a letter to the Chief Secretary of Jharkhand informing about the spread of bird flu in Ranchi and advised to take precautions.
The Central Ministry also informed the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare about this, so that they can also take precautions. The ministry advised to declare the infected area, ban access to that area and keep surveillance within a radius of 10 km. Also, instructions were given to destroy the infected birds and clean the campus completely.
The dead birds were buried properly in the Veterinary College and medicines have been sprayed in the entire campus. For security reasons, unauthorized entry has been banned in the main poultry farm as a precaution.