India has become free from Avian Influenza (H5N1 and H5N8). It has been notified to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
Agriculture Ministry said, surveillance was carried out throughout the country and around the areas of the outbreaks since completion of the operation including culling, disinfection and clean-up and surveillance in the states showed no evidence of presence of Avian Influenza Virus.
Earlier, India had reported outbreaks of Avian influenza at various epicenters in Delhi, Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, Rajpura in Punjab, Hisar in Haryana, Bellary in Karnataka, Allappuzha and Kottayam in Kerala, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Daman in Union territory of Daman and Diu and Khordha and Angul in Odisha during October, 2016 to February, 2017.