DHAKA (March 15 2010): At least 117,000
chickens were destroyed in northern
Bangladesh Sunday after avian flu outbreak
on one of the country's largest POULTRY
farms, a local official said. The deadly
H5N1 strain of flu was detected on Saturday
when 400 chickens died suddenly at the Kazi
Farms complex in Thakurgaon town, district
LIVESTOCK chief Mosaddekur Rahman told AFP.
Kazi Farms is Bangladesh's largest POULTRY
bird ad AFP. Bangladesh was hit by bird flu
in February 2007, when more than one million
birds were slaughtered on thousands of farms
across the country. The last major outbreak
was in November 2008 when 10,000 birds were
culled over a two-month period, with smaller
outbreaks detected in 2009. Bangladesh's
POULTRY industry is one of the world's
largest, producing 220 million chickens and
37 million ducks annually.
Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2010
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