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- By Parinda News Bureau, February 24, 2006, 11:05 IST
The Union government on Thursday declared that there had been co cases of bird flu among humans.
Union Health Ministry's Additional Secretary Deepak Gupta said, "There is no confirmed human case of avian influenza till now. All patients isolated at Navapur sub district hospital in Maharashtra are normal and clinically clear." Giving details about the test results of human samples, Gupta said: "Altogether 95 samples were put to test. They were double-checked at Delhi-based National Institute of Communicable Diseases and Pune-based National Institute of Virology. Out of these, 94 turned out to be negative while the result of one sample was awaited. That too would be available on Saturday."
Explaining the delay, Dr N K Ganguly, director general of ICMR, said that during transportation the copy of one sample could not be sent to Pune owing to an error. "It is being flown today to Pune," he said, adding that "though the result of the Pune test would be available on Saturday, I feel that this to would be negative." Meanwhile, the Animal Husbandry Department under the Agriculture Ministry said that culling operation had been completed in Maharashtra , where a total 2.75 lakh birds have been killed and 5.87 lakh eggs destroyed.
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