India reports fresh bird flu outbreak

Indian authorities said they had confirmed an outbreak of bird flu among poultry following the death of thousands of chickens in the past week in the eastern state of West Bengal.

"The samples sent to the laboratory have tested positive for bird flu. It is the H5N1 strain," said agriculture ministry spokesman Manoj Pandey. It is the country's third outbreak since 2006 and the first since India, home to 1.1 billion people, declared itself free of the disease last November.

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