Bird flu detected in dead crows, MP govt sounds alert

Panic has gripped several parts of Madhya Pradesh after hundreds of crows have died in three districts in the past one week. While post mortem reports of the dead crows, sent from Mandsaur and Khargone to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) in Bhopal are awaited, the strain of the H5N8 avian flu has been detected from the samples sent from Indore.