Bird flu will not affect Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said that there
was no chance of avian flu striking Tamil Nadu.
Briefing media persons on the sidelines of distribution of 60,000
clothes to Corporation schoolchildren by the Rajasthan Cosmo Club
Foundation, in Chennai, the Minister said the public need not panic on
bird flu in Tamil Nadu.
"Steps have been taken to prevent the spread of the avian flu in West
Bengal, he said on Sunday adding that already lakhs of affected birds
had been culled and people were being diagnosed and medicines
sufficient.
Asked why it could not be possible to prevent the avian flu, he said
the migrating birds from Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Myanmar and other
countries carry the deadly H5N1 virus.
But the State and Central Governments had taken all steps to bring
the situation under control. |