BIRD FLU GETS WORSE.
Health workers in Nepal have culled thousands of poultry following the discovery of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the eastern part of the Himalayan country, officials said Tuesday.
"Over 10,000 chickens and ducks have been destroyed in the last four days," local government administrator Laxman Hamal told AFP from Kakarbhitta, near the border with India.
Dahal said "rapid response teams" were mobilised in the area, 310 kilometres (190 miles) east of Kathmandu, to start "mass slaughter of poultry to prevent the disease from spreading in other parts of the town."
Last week the government declared the area an emergency zone after the discovery of the country’s first case of avian influenza.
