ISLAMABAD, April 20: Pakistan on Thursday culled around 25,000 chickens at two farms near the capital where bird flu was detected, officials said.
Scientists detected a mild strain of bird flu, H5, in flocks at two farms near Islamabad on Thursday and suspected that two other farms might also be affected in the same area.
“We have destroyed about 25,000 chickens at two farms where the outbreak of H5 strain has been confirmed,” Shamsul Hasan, director at the state-run Poultry Development Centre, told Reuters.
Pakistan has not reported any cases of humans contracting the disease.—Reuters
