Health officials and farm workers in protective gloves and masks slaughtered thousands of chickens Sunday in western India a day after the country's first reported outbreak of deadly bird flu.
Officials near the affected area reported that a 27-year-old poultry farm owner had died of bird-flu-like symptoms. Laboratory tests were pending and the case remained unconfirmed.
[...] The Indian government announced an aid package for farmers Sunday following confirmation that at least some of 30,000 chickens that had died in Navapur, a major poultry farming region in western Maharashtra state, over the past week were infected with H5N1.
Authorities stressed no human cases had been confirmed as they awaited test results from the poultry farm owner who died.
Source. Effect Measure is unhappy with the tone used by Indian officials trying to minimize the latest discoveries.