A joint team of Kirtipur Municipality and the Animal Health Department collected 68 crows found dead on the Tribhuvan University campus and buried them on Tuesday.
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A large number of crows found dead on the Tribhuvan University campus in Kirtipur have been confirmed to be infected with bird flu. A joint team of Kirtipur Municipality and the Animal Health Department collected 68 crows found dead on the Tribhuvan University campus and buried them on Tuesday.
'There are still dead crows found there, since we could not collect all the dead crows today, we will continue the work tomorrow as well,' said Sushila Gaire, the municipality's animal services chief, while talking to RSS. According to her, a local person had reported to the branch a week ago that crows had died in the Birendra Rajyabhishek Park of Tribhuvan University.
According to chief Gaire, 10 dead crows were sent to the laboratory of the animal services department for testing. After testing in the laboratory, bird flu was confirmed in those crows. After that, the municipality and animal services department teams decided to collect the dead crows today. In addition, the team was instructed to collect samples of other birds found dead in the same place. Accordingly, the collection of dead crows began at 3 pm today. The 64 crows collected today have been buried in a pit.
Chief Gaire said that no other birds were found dead in the park. 'Since it is a bird that flies everywhere in open areas, its control is more complicated than the bird flu seen in chickens,' she said. According to her, a public notice has also been issued to not transport chicken feed in the Kirtipur municipality area.
Senior veterinarian Mukul Upadhyay of the Animal Services Department informed that both types of bird flu viruses, H1N1 and H9, were found in the dead crows. He speculates that the crows that fell on the migratory birds may have been infected with bird flu from migratory birds. He also informed that a few years ago, a crow was infected in the British Embassy premises in the capital.
Stating that such a problem appears at different times, Upadhyay also said that there is an equal risk of it infecting other birds.
He said that people should not do things like killing crows in other places just because they are infected. He also urged people not to feed dead chickens to pigs or consume chicken meat just because it is cheap without knowing the source.
