Besides meat, the administration has also prohibited sell and purchase of eggs. [break]
More than 2,300 chickens were culled on Monday from Khanar-based poultry farm in Sunsari.
The disease spread to two separate farms in Itahari. All the chickens of a farm have died of the disease and the authorities had only cleansed the farm.
With the confirmation of disease from UK-based laboratory as well, the authorities had banned import and export of chickens in the district earlier.
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