India slaughters more chickens in bird flu scare

Health workers slaughtered thousands of chickens in dozens of western Indian villages today to contain the country’s second bird flu outbreak, a senior official said.

Four chickens in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra state tested positive for the H5 strain of bird flu, and authorities were still awaiting the results of tests to determine if they had the virulent H5N1 variety of the disease.