Punjab: 250 to 1,500 poultry birds dying daily at Barwala, say RDDL officials
(WorldNews India)

Around 250 to 1,500 poultry birds have been dying on a daily basis in a number of poultry farms situated at Barwala for the last couple of days. Sources in the sampling teams of Regional Disease Diagnosis Laboratory (RDDL), Jalandhar, said that certain owners of the poultry farms accepted the high mortality but a majority of them attempted to underplay the high mortality in their farms. Sources in the sampling teams, which started collecting samples around 1 pm, said multiple poultry farms were detected in which mortality of 1,000 to 1,500 birds is being reported every day. Several farm owners tried to underplay the mortality in their farms. The mortality of 250 birds in one poultry farm is...