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JUNAGADH: Gujarat on Friday recorded its first confirmed cases of bird flu infection after samples of two dead birds from Junagadh district tested positive, an official said.
The two birds, lapwings, had been rescued on January 3 from an area near Kharo Dam in Manavadar tehsil of the district, but they later died due to illness, said Dr D D Panera, deputy director, Animal Husbandry division, Junagadh. We sent the carcasses to a laboratory in Bhopal. I learnt today that the presence of bird flu virus was found in these carcasses. We will disinfect the area near the dam and take all precautionary steps as per protocol, he said.