Jalgaon flu: Culling ends, suspected human case put under observation

8216;8216;We have monitored almost 70,000 people in two rounds. We will keep checking the same population for flu-like symptoms for 10 days after the last bird is culled,8217;8217; Singhal said.

The district collector said the boy was examined by a team of specialists from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Delhi and the National Institute of Virology, Pune, yesterday. 8220;Fortunately, they have concluded that the patient does not even come under the 8216;suspected8217; category. But as a precaution, he has been kept under observation in the isolation ward and was also administered the bird flu drug, Tamiflu,8221; the collector said.

The administration has completed the culling of nearly 80,000 chickens in four villages declared infected by avian influenza. 8220;The culling is over. We are still compiling the figures through the panchnama. Till yesterday the figures were 83,259 birds,8221; Animal Husbandry Commissioner Bijay Kumar said.