KARACHI: The Sindh government has confirmed the presence of bird flu virus in poultry farms located in Karachi's Gadap area.
Talking to Geo News, Sindh government's Poultry Research department director Dr.Ali Akbar today announced that the deadly H5N-1 strain of bird flu has been identified in Gadap and 5,000 chickens have already been culled.
Earlier, the department had sent samples from the poultry farms to the National research lab in Islamabad to confirm the presence of the highly contagious avian influenza.
source geo.tv