10,000 poultry culled
About 2,000 poultry died of bird flu in the last four days while 10,000 fouls of Rangpur Poultry Firm at Lalbagh were culled yesterday evening. District livestock officer (DLO) Dr Mosharraf Hossain said after detecting avian influenza virus in the fouls in local lab, the department sent sample to Joypurhat laboratory and Dhaka. Both laboratories found presence of bird flu virus. "So we culled about 10,000 fouls which were attacked with the virus", he said.
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