Manahara declared bird-flu hit zone

Manahara declared bird-flu hit zone

By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Dec. 2, The government Friday declared Manohara area at Lokanthali in Bhaktapur as bird-flu affected zone. The meeting of the Council of Ministers announced the human settlement areas that comprise of eastern part of Lokanthali, western side of Manohara, landless squatters’ settlement in the northern side of Manohara, and southern belt that touches the Araniko Highway as bird-flu-hit zone. Emerging from the cabinet meeting, government spokesperson, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha said that the government initiated a plan to control the epidemic in an effective and prompt manner as per direction from the concerned stakeholders. "The government would further take necessary measures to control the disease that started from Manohara area," Deputy Prime Minister Shrestha said. .. Meanwhile, in Banepa the District Livestock Services Office, Kavre, has declared high alert against bird flu in the district. Chief of the office Dr. Keshav Achhami said effective monitoring has been intensified in the disease-prone areas. The office has formed a committee in the convenorship of Dr. Hari Kumar Raghu Shrestha. Dr. Achhami said the office has adopted high alert in Bhakunde, Dolalghat, Panchkhal, Mahadevsthan, Nala, Banepa and other regions where commercial poultry farming is done. However, no case of H5N1 virus that causes bird flu has been seen in the district so far.  http://gorkhapatra.org.np/rising.detail.php?article_id=60237&cat_id=4