India has declared itself free from bird flu (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza). The declaration was made here on December 29, 2011, and notified to the OIE (Office International des Epizooties, which later became the World Organisation for Animal Health). However, states have been advised to keep up the vigil, according to the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

NEW DELHI: The government today announced that the country is free of bird flu disease, but continues to keep a watchful eye on vulnerable areas.
Bird flu, also know as avian influenza, is a flu that affects birds. The virus that causes the bird infection can mutate to affect humans.
"The declaration was made here on December 29, 2011, and notified to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)," an official statement said.

The government today announced that the country is free of bird flu disease, but continues to keep a watchful eye on vulnerable areas.

Bird flu, also know as avian influenza, is a flu that affects birds. The virus that causes the bird infection can mutate to affect humans.

KRISHNAGAR, 22 SEPT: As culling operations continue in the blocks of Tehatta in Nadia affected by Bird Flu, experts have said that killing birds in poultry farms will not alone solve the spread of the H5N1 virus.

Ranchi, Sept. 20: The animal husbandry department has asked all district animal officials (DHO) to constantly monitor poultry in their respective areas following a central alert on a bird flu outbreak in Assam’s Dhubri region.

Unconfirmed reports also indicated a possible flu threat in Bengal’s Nadia district.

Bird flu has resurfaced in West Bengal with poultry samples from five gram panchayats of Tehatta I block in Nadia district testing positive for H5N1 (avian influenza) at the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) in Bhopal.

KOLKATA/MALDA, 24 AUG: Four more flood-related deaths have been reported from Nadia and Burdwan over the past 24 hours taking the death toll to 62.

Calcutta, Aug. 7: The hospital chain run by cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty has submitted a detailed proposal to the Mamata Banerjee government for the development of crucial infrastructure now missing in rural hospitals.

The blueprint proposes to set up dialysis units, diagnostic laboratories, cardiac catheterisation laboratories and coronary care units near the district hospitals at Purulia, Birbhum, East Midnapore, Nadia and Malda.

KRISHNAGAR, 7 AUG: The state public health engineering department (PHE) today started two water supply projects at Kashiadanga in Nakashipara and Bhagyabantapur in Kaliganj to provide arsenic-free drinking water to the residents of the areas.

Kolkata: Eleven West Bengal districts were declared