{"id":304465,"date":"2026-06-24T07:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=304465"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:45:05","slug":"bird-flu-outbreak-spreads-in-11-districts-kathmandu-valley-urged-to-take-precaution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/bird-flu-outbreak-spreads-in-11-districts-kathmandu-valley-urged-to-take-precaution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu outbreak spreads in 11 districts, Kathmandu Valley urged to take precaution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The outbreak of bird flu (H5N1) that started from some districts of Koshi Province in April has reached the Kathmandu Valley of late. <\/p>\n<p>Issuing a press release on Tuesday, the Department of Livestock Services said that bird flu has been confirmed in 82 places of 11 districts of the country and high alertness has been adopted to control it. <\/p>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p>According to the department, bird flu was confirmed for the first time in Morang district on March 14 this season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row bigyaapan-box split-box\">The disease has spread in 11 districts including Jhapa, Morang, Sunsari, Mahottari, Bara, Chitwan, Nawalparasi, Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur and Kavrepalanchowk. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The department has so far destroyed 5,69,858 birds, 9,89,313 eggs and 1,95,485 kg of feed in the disease-affected areas.TAG_OPEN_div_10\u00a0 The Jawalakhel Zoo in the Kathmandu Valley has been closed after some birds died due to the disease. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Director General of the Department, Dr. According to Umesh Dahal, the ban on poultry smuggling in Koshi Province for a month has helped in controlling the infection there. The disease has been brought under control in Jhapa, Morang, Sunsari, Bara, Mahottari, Chitwan and Nawalparasi districts. Lately, the dengue has been spreading rapidly in the Kathmandu Valley. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The outbreak of bird flu (H5N1) that started from some districts of Koshi Province in April has reached the Kathmandu Valley of late. Issuing a press release on Tuesday, the Department of Livestock Services said that bird flu has been confirmed in 82 places of 11 districts of the country and high alertness has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":168884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45031,45149,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-news-en","category-laghu-beema-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304466,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304465\/revisions\/304466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/168884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}