500 chicken dead in Tripura, samples sent for bird flu (ANI via Yahoo! India News) By Pinaki Das Chebri (West Tripura), Aug 4 (ANI): Tripura has sounded alert as about 500 chickens were found dead in a commercial poultry farm. The birds died in a farm in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Krishi Vigyan Kendra poultry farm at Chebri in Khowai sub division of West Tripura District. The area is bordering Bangladesh, where avian flu has spread to a number of areas ... [News Source]