Policy Notes - TNAU Agritech Portal

‣ Active surveillance work is carried out byVeterinary Assistant Surgeons visiting thepoultry farms in their jurisdiction regularly forensuring poultry health / mortality reporting.‣ The bird sanctuaries are visited byVeterinarians in Animal Disease IntelligenceUnits assisted by Forest Department for thesurveillance work, especially to monitor themovement of migratory birds.‣ Targeted sera samples are collected from alldistricts and are regularly sent to SouthernRegional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory,Bangalore through Central ReferralLaboratory, Chennai for screening. So far,12,547 samples have been tested.‣ In case of unusual sickness and death inpoultry, clinical samples are collected andsent to High Security Animal DiseaseLaboratory at Bhopal.‣ Two Poultry Disease Diagnostic laboratoriesone at Andagalurgate (Namakkal) andanother at Erode are being upgraded to BSLII at a cost of Rs.22 lakhs each in order toscreen the samples collected from poultrysera in our State itself.‣ Government of India have sanctioned theestablishment of a Bio-Security Level IVLaboratory at Padappai near Chennai inTamil Nadu. An extent of 30 acres of landhas been handed over to Government ofIndia for setting up the laboratory. Thisprestigious project is being sanctioned for thepurpose of certifying Tamil Nadu as a zonefree of Avian Influenza, in case of outbreaksof bird flu in other parts of the country, so asto facilitate uninterrupted export of eggs,chicks and their products.‣ A State High Level Task Force, headed byChief Secretary to Government of TamilNadu, is monitoring the surveillance andpreparedness of the State for tackling AvianInfluenza.‣ Three hundred Rapid Response Teams(RRT) have been formed in the State and4243