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Bird flu spreads to Sikkim, 3rd state to be hit [1]

Health Ministry Rushes Team
Kounteya Sinha | TNN

New Delhi: The Union health ministry has rushed a three-member team from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases to Sikkim after it became the third state in the country to report an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu this year.

West Bengal and Assam are already reeling under an outbreak.

Publication Date: 
21/01/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Avian Flu [3], Poultry [4], National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) [5], Sikkim [6]

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