date:Nov 01, 2012
s - 19,235 chickens, 13,673 ducks and 369 emus - present on the CPDO premises and within a 1km radius.
In addition, the department has begun sanitisation of its turkey, duck, emu and chicken units.
Animal husbandry department principal secretary Aravind Jannu said that about 80 samples from villages around CPDO were sent for tests to a high-security animal disease laboratory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
No further unnatural deaths of birds have been reported from this zone, Jannu added.
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