At a time when Coronavirus killed two million people across the world, a new virus is raging, this time in birds. It has caused deaths of thousands of wild and poultry birds in India. Following the outbreak, officials of Animal husbandry and Wildlife Protection in Jammu and Kashmir are on tiptoes. This avian influenza (bird flu) is attributed to H5N1 virus has been found in migratory and poultry birds. Jammu and Kashmir is highly vulnerable to bird flu as lakhs of migratory birds from faraway places migrate to its wetlands in winters through Central Asian Flyway (CAF). As the virus from the cross-border migratory birds spread to the domestic ones and eventually to the poultry, Jammu and Kashmir being one of the highest consumers of poultry imported from the affected states like Punjab and Haryana banned the import. They say it is just a precautionary measure.
World Health Organization (WHO) said more than half of the world’s bird flu incidents take place in the Central Asian Flyway (CAF) covering almost the entire Indian subcontinent. Close to 90 percent of birds, migrating through the flyway, visit India’s wintering sites and some of them may be carriers of various avian diseases. The bird flu spreads through their droppings, contaminating the water bodies and places they visit. This leaves no room for Jammu and Kashmir’s Animal Husbandry and Wild Life protection departments for working independently of each other.
POULTRY PROBLEMS
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