Just a day after Maharashtra reported its first bird flu infections in poultry, a man has died of suspected bird flu in western India, a top official informed on Sunday. In past days, 50,000 birds died in Gujarat, the adjacent state to Maharashtra. And tests on some of the fowl also proved positive for the H5N1 avian flu virus.
“A poultry farm owner died on Friday in Surat district. Local tests have confirmed bird flu but we have sent samples to the national laboratory. A final report is awaited,” Vatsala Vasudev, the top district administrator of Surat in western Gujarat state, told Reuters.
It has been informed that the 27 year-old man, Ganesh Sonarkar, who died of the virus was a resident of Nandurbar district of Maharashtra state.
Via: Express India