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India orders culling after fresh bird flu outbreak GUWAHATI, India -- Indian authorities on Monday ordered the slaughter of 20,000 birds after a new outbreak of bird flu was confirmed in a state bordering Bangladesh, officials said. The remote northeastern state of Tripura is the second state after West Bengal in the country's east to report an outbreak of avian influenza this year. "We have received a report from the High Security Animal Diseases Laboratory in Bhopal confirming bird flu," said Aghore Debbarma, the state's agriculture minister, after some 3,000 birds died in Tripura the past week. |
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