{"id":151402,"date":"2025-02-19T10:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bird-flu-kills-300-birds-in-plateau"},"modified":"2025-02-20T23:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:11:34","slug":"bird-flu-kills-300-birds-in-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bird-flu-kills-300-birds-in-plateau","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu kills 300 birds  in Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Avian influenza, popularly known as bird flu, has killed 300 birds on a farm in Plateau.<\/p>\n<p>Shase\u2019et Sipak, the Chief Veterinary Officer of the state, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sipak said that the outbreak was confirmed by the National Veterinary Research Institute, NVRI, Vom, in Jos.<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that the affected farm was located in Bassa Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we got wind of the suspected outbreak in Bassa, we immediately went there and took a sample, which was later confirmed positive by the NVRI laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was 100 percent morbidity; of the 300 birds, more than 280 died. We later depopulated the remaining ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also sealed off the farm and took other biosecurity steps to avert further spread of the disease to other farms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sipak called on poultry farmers in the state to take stringent biosecurity measures to prevent the spread and save their birds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Avian influenza, popularly known as bird flu, has killed 300 birds on a farm in Plateau. Shase\u2019et Sipak, the Chief Veterinary Officer of the state, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Wednesday. Sipak said that the outbreak was confirmed by the National Veterinary Research Institute, NVRI, Vom, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":151401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[9079,254,191],"class_list":["post-151402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-bird-flu","tag-nigeria","tag-plateau"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bird flu kills 300 birds in Plateau - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Avian influenza, popularly known as bird flu, has killed 300 birds on a farm in Plateau. 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