{"id":7416,"date":"2008-11-27T00:33:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T00:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/11\/27\/bird-flu-scare-in-assam\/"},"modified":"2008-11-27T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T00:33:07","slug":"bird-flu-scare-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/11\/27\/bird-flu-scare-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu scare in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>More than 300 poultry birds have died in the past five days in some villages in Assam, fuelling fears of bird flu, officials said here Wednesday, adding that a general alert was sounded in the area. A veterinary department official said up to 300 chicken and ducks died an unnatural death in some villages around Hajo, about 35 km west of Assam\u2019s main city of Guwahati. \u201cWe have sent samples for laboratory tests to Pune and Bangalore for confirmation. We don\u2019t know for sure if the poultry deaths were due to bird flu,\u201d a veterinary department official said requesting not to be named. Authorities Wednesday imposed a ban on sale of poultry and have sounded a general alert in about 40 villages in a radius of five kilometers from the area where the deaths were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 poultry birds have died in the past five days in some villages in Assam, fuelling fears of bird flu, officials said here Wednesday, adding that a general alert was sounded in the area. A veterinary department official said up to 300 chicken and ducks died an unnatural death in some villages around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}