Smuggled chicken to blame for return of bird flu?

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Smuggled chicken to blame for return of bird flu? [1]

Illegal smuggling of poultry for trade, from bird flu free districts of West Bengal into the affected districts, may have caused the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus to resurface in West Bengal.

Publication Date:

11/03/2008

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/avian-flu
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poultry
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-bengal
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/birbhum
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