Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The death of birds has been reported from various parts of Maharashtra have now reached more than 289, and the death toll of birds reached 18,700.
As per reports, out of 289 dead birds were from poultry while the rest included other birds like Herons, Parrots and Crows. The samples of these birds have been delivered to a laboratory in Bhopal so that they could able to know whether they were infected with avian influenza disease or Bird Flu.
Even around 51,090 poultry birds, eight ducks, 38,798 eggs and 55,476 kg of poultry fodder have been destroyed in the infected areas in Maharashtra so far. Poultry birds have been started killing, destroying eggs, dropping manure, fodder, and within one kilometre around infected hen farms.
The culling of birds is done to prevent the spread of the domestic poultry birds such as chicken and ducks such as bird flu. Culling of birds in the infected area is also done where the mass slaughter of poultry birds is brought out to restrain the bird flu spread. In this process, the birds are slaughtered and then buried, and the whole area of the farm is sanitised.
Earlier last month, massive outbreaks of bird flu were confirmed in some districts of Maharashtra.
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