By relying on culling and vaccinating alone, and not looking for other solutions, India can expect more bird flu and we can expect to read of it becoming a pandemic in near future.
Fresh bird flu outbreak in India
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By Subir Bhaumik
BBC News, Calcutta
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 Thousands of birds have been slaughtered in the state of Assam
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Authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal say they have identified the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in thousands of dead chickens.
Tests on poultry from two villages around Englishbazar town in the Maldah district have returned positive results, a health official said.
He "few thousand" birds in the area will be slaughtered, he said.
The H5N1 strain of bird flu is regarded as highly pathogenic and can also cause disease and death in humans.
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