March 2013 Vol. 1 Issue 1 

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Review

Avian influenza pandemics in Bangladesh

Md. Ashraful Kabir M.

Department of Biology, Holy Land College, Uttar Balubari, Dinajpur 5200, Bangladesh

E-mail:  ashraful_wb@yahoo.com

Accepted February 6, 2013

Abstract

Poultries are classified as order Galliformes for chickens and as Anseriformes for the duck groups. The order Galliformes includes the domestic fowl Gallus domesticus, the Turkey Meleagris gallopavo, the Quail Coturnix coturnix, the Guinea Fowl Numida meleagris, and the Pheasant Phasianus colchicum. The Order Anseriformes, on the other hand, includes the domestic duck Anser platyrhynchus var domestica, the Muscovy duck Cairina moschata, geese Anser anser and Anser cygnoides. The chickens, the turkey, the quail, the guinea fowl and the pheasant belong to the Family Phasianidae. A laying economical hen to keep in the farm up to the age of 72-76 weeks. In 1996 in our Bangladesh 47,168 chicken farms and 26,944 duck farms but now a days this is minimum 1.5-3 lakh poultry farms at present and out of these 179-287 farms have been affected 12,000 crore taka already has invested in this sector for the betterment of the development of poultry industry. 236 commercial farm, 41 backyard farm, 130 parental stock farm, 136 hatcheries, breeders farm, 1% pigeon farm, 50 automatic feed mill, 450 small and medium sized feed mill, employee half crore to 5 million have been severely affected. From the investigation of the poultry farm there were around 200-500 chickens 48%, 501-1000 were 26%, 1001-3000 were 22% and above 3000 number of chickens 4% in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Avian influenza, bird flu, pandemics, Bangladesh