More than 1,000 field staff of the department of livestock services are now using cell phone and web-based SMS gateway to report Avian Infleunza outbreaks in the poultry farms of 306 upazilas.

The DLS staff through SMS reported 144 out of the 161 outbreaks that have occurred during the last wave of bird flu outbreak beginning in January 2011 after successive two lean years.

The SMS surveilla