Indian health officials said on Friday no flu-like symptoms had been found in any person in a western Indian state where 70,000 chickens are being killed to contain a second outbreak of bird flu in poultry.
The latest outbreak -- in backyard poultry of Jalgaon district in Maharashtra state -- was the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, but it has not infected people so far.
"We have not yet found anyone with flu-like symptoms despite a very intense door-to-door search," T.P. Doke, Maharashtra's health director, said.
Authorities had identified four villages spread over 1,100 square km (425 square miles) in the Jalgaon area as affected.
Jalgaon is 200 km (125 miles) from View the rest of this article
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