Massive economic depression possible in India and China - Poultry farmer dies in India, bird flu suspected
Sudhir Chadda
Feb. 19, 2006

The bird flu is taking grip of the world slowly and steadily. Because of massive population density in India and to some extent china/South East Asia, these countries may plunge into a deep deflationery depression cycle. According to some experts, in India, people and poultry live close to each other. In the country side most families keep poultry for eggs. With a serious break out of bird flue, India can lose 18% of its population within the first year. If the outbreak is not controlled, 38% of the population can be affected.

According to media reports, a poultry farmer has died of suspected bird flu in western India, where the country's first outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus has been confirmed.

The 27-year-old farmer was from western Maharashtra state, where the bird flu outbreak was reported.

Vatsala Vasudev, chief administrator of neighbouring Gujarat's Surat district, said the farmer died on Friday.

"At this juncture we can only suspect that the cause of his death could be bird flu. But we can confirm only after his blood report comes from the laboratory," she told.

The farmer was from Nandurbar district of western Maharashtra state where the bird flu outbreak was reported but had been shifted to Surat where he died, the report said.

"There is one death but there is a question mark over whether it was caused by viral pneumonia or bird flu," the official from the Maharashtra chief minister's office said.

On Saturday, officials said India was testing 12 people for bird flu after a farm was hit by a virulent H5N1 strain in chickens.

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