"We are all jobless." 5,000 families

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"It is a question of livelihood for 5,000 families," 

said Ghulam Vhora, a member of a Navapur

 poultry farmers' association, after his 30,000 birds

 were killed. "We are all jobless."    Feb 21/06

Authorities have ordered 48 poultry farms around Navapur, more than 

400 kilometres (250 miles) northeast of Bombay, to be emptied and 

remain shut for three months. The government has offered farmers 

compensation of 40 rupees (US$0.90; euro0.75) per bird.  

"This is totally inadequate," said Vhora. "This should be treated as a 

national calamity, like an earthquake, and the government should act in 

the same way." 

At least eight people hospitalised with flu-like symptoms near Navapur 

were being tested for bird flu. A ninth person was admitted yesterday 

with similar symptoms and was also placed in isolation awaiting test 

results, said Prakash Dok, the director of Navapur's hospital. 

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Edited by Rick

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	"It is a question of livelihood for 5,000 families," said Ghulam Vhora, a member of a Navapur poultry farmers' association, after his 30,000 birds were killed. "We are all jobless." Feb 21/06 Authorities have ordered 48 poultry farms around Navapur, more than 400 kilometres (250 miles) northeast of Bombay, to be emptied and remain shut for three months. The government has offered farmers compensation of 40 rupees (US$0.90; euro0.75) per bird. "This is totally inadequate," said Vhora. "This should be treated as a national calamity, like an earthquake, and the government should act in the same way." At least eight people hospitalised with flu-like symptoms near Navapur were being tested for bird flu. A ninth person was admitted yesterday with similar symptoms and was also placed in isolation awaiting test results, said Prakash Dok, the director of Navapur's hospital. http://www.kuwaittimes.net/international.asp? dismode=article&artid=1530594825 Edited by Rick

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	So the next town or village will hide their chickens. They have got to pay these people and get them on their feet again,or something worse could happen. I don't know what but at the rate we are going it'll be bad.