Adamawa Commissioner for Livestock Production said that a combined team of veterinary experts were deployed to the area to investigate and reported that it was suspected Bird flu.
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A disease suspected to be Avian
Influenza has hit Toungo Local Government Area [LGA] of Adamawa as
hundreds of birds were reported dead.
Adamawa State Government, through Isa
Salihu, its Commissioner for Livestock Production, confirms the outbreak
of Avian Influenza in the affected LGA of the state
Investigation by our correspondent in Yola reveals that the disease has already wiped out some poultry farms in the area.
According to the investigation, in 2009
the disease was first recorded in Lavundu village in Girei local
government area of the state.
When contacted over the situation, the
Adamawa state Commissioner for Livestock, Alhaji Salihu on Monday
confirmed that there was suspected Bird Flu case in the state.
Salihu told our reporter in Yola that the disease was reported at one poultry farm in Toungo Local Government Area of the state.
He said that a combined team of
veterinary experts were deployed to the area to investigate and later
reported back that it was suspected Bird flu disease.
“The Ministry last week received a
report from a Poultry farm belonging to one Alhaji Yusuf Toungo that a
huge number of birds in the farm are dying.
“The sample of the death birds from the
poultry was taken to the National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom in
Plateau state for further investigation,” Salihu said.
He said that the state government had
already taken quarantine measures including surveillance in the affected
areas to contain the disease.
Salihu appealed to the people of the
area not to panic and report any suspicious disease to the nearest Local
Government Divisional Veterinary Officer for prompt action
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