Authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal say they have identified the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in thousands of dead chickens.
Tests on poultry from two villages around Englishbazar town in the Maldah district have returned positive results, a health official said.
He "few thousand" birds in the area will be slaughtered, he said.
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