H5N1 virus detected on major poultry farm in India

//14 Mar 2011
On a major breeding farm in Ghandigam, India, the bird flu virus H5N1 has been detected. All the animals on the farm in addition to all the birds in a radius of 6 miles have been culled.
The farm has a capacity of 4,000 layer birds. When 380 chickens on the farms died, laboratory tests reveiled that the animals died from the H5N1 virus.

In 2006, H5N1 was first detected in India. No human infections have been reported since then.