n the virus is alive in the medium - dead chicken, blood, egg, tissue, or faecal matter - by maintaining a cold chain and sticking to the time of collection and packaging norms".

As for the culling procedure, Pradhan said, it is better to burn the carcasses.

"Buried animals can be dug out by dogs or jackals if the hole is not deep enough or they have not been treated properly with lime and chemicals," he said.

The lab is at present running out of time and space. While it can handle a maximum of about 2,000 blood samples and 100 tissue and faecal samples a week, it has been receiving 4,000 samples every week over the past month.

Six out of the eight rooms in the laboratory are now engaged in H5N1 work, distributed across a dozen scientists.

The pressure is forcing Pradhan and his colleagues to pick and choose samples.

"There is pressure," Pradhan admits, adding: "The top priority is for samples from sites with mortality."

--Edited IANS
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