The Animal Husbandry department has stepped up surveillance in the livestock sector in view of the Nipah outbreak in Kozhikode district.
The department has formed a team under the District Animal Husbandry Officer, Kozhikode, in view of the recent outbreak. A district surveillance team has been tasked with finding out whether pig farms exist within five km of the epicentre of the outbreak and to keep them under surveillance.
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