AVIAN INFLUENZA – A Major Economic Threat to Indian Poultry Industry

Avian Influenza a zoonotic disease which is also known as Avian Influenza, Bird flu, or fowl plague. Avian Influenza is highly infectious /contagious zoonotic viral disease mainly of wild birds and domestic birds. This disease spreads very fast and can cause huge economical losses in poultry. The losses may be due to culling of birds and hampering or stoppage of international trade of poultry and poultry products which will affect the total economics of the poultry industry. As it is a zoonotic disease so it can transmit to the human…