Bird flu town sealed off in India
23/02/2006 - 08:32:31Authorities today sealed a western Indian town at the centre of the country’s first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, allowing no one in or out.
Roads to Navapur were closed and trains crossing the area were not being permitted to stop at stations inside the town, said PG Chowdhury of the local police.
“No one will be allowed to come in. Those who are inside will stay in, the ones outside will stay out,” he said.
Chowdhury said the senior officials in the state had ordered the town sealed as a precaution, a day after workers finished slaughtering 700,000 chickens to stop the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
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