REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Workers from the Animal Protection Ministry cull chicks to contain an outbreak of bird flu at a farm in Ivory Coast, August 14, 2015 (Reuters / Luc Gnago)
PARIS: India has reported an outbreak of a highly contagious bird flu virus near Bengaluru in the southern state of Karnataka, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing a report from the Indian agriculture ministry.
The H5N8 virus was detected on Dec. 26 among birds in the village of Dasarahalli, killing 9 out of 951 birds. The others were culled, the Paris-based OIE said in a report posted on its website.
No details were given on the type of birds involved.
(Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide, editing by Gus Trompiz)
