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A Ban On Chicken Trade In the Kathmandu Valley Due To Bird Flu
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 3, 2013: following the outbreak of 16 bird-flu cases in 17 days since July 16 in Kathmandu, the animal health authorities of Nepal yesterday placed a ban on chicken trade in the Kathmandu Valley for one week, according to Xinhua news.
The ban on sale of chicken is pursuant to the Animal Health and Livestock Services Act 1999. Following the ban, chickens cannot be supplied and sold in all three districts such as Lalitpur, Bhaktapur and Kathmandu.
"We expect to control bird flu within one week. If it does not happen, the ban may be extended further," said Bolraj Acharya, Chief of the Department of Livestock Services.
"We will try our best to bring the disease under control. The ban is for the same purpose," said Jay Mukund Khanal, Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture.
The ban will be effective until August 7 and authorities have plans to cull all the affected chickens by this period.
