Satish Aditya
Muzaffarpur : Amidst the alert sounded by the administration over Bird –flu in Bihar, 130 chicken were found dead on January 8, 2021, in an agriculture field at village Pateri-Tilak under Saraiya police station (PS) in Muzaffarpur District in North Bihar triggering panic among the villagers . Animal Husbandry Department officials were informed by the villagers about this development and requested to inquire into the matter.
Dr Sunil Kumar Singh, District Animal Husbandry Officer, Muzaffarpur, on Janjuary 8, 2021, itself with a team of officials and
collected samples of serum from the carcass of dead chickens for examinations. He said that these samples would be sent to
Institute of Animal health and Production at Patna for examination.
The villagers said that these dead chickens were thrown into an agriculture field by some poultry farm owners and they had buried buried the same to prevent spread of Bird-flu in the district.