Rains offer hope for bird virus outbreak

Rains offer hope for bird virus outbreak

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MURSHIDABAD, India, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- An outbreak of avian flu in Murchidabad, India, may have been temporarily restrained thanks to a series of unseasonal rains.

Animal Resources Development Minister Anisur Rehman said that while the increased rainfall has prevented the culling of potentially infected animals, the unseasonal weather may be the key to limiting the spread of the potentially deadly virus, the Press Trust of India reported Saturday.

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I don't really understand how rain can give them hopes that the bird flu may be restrained. The rain is preventing them from culling the birds that may be infected but how does the rain help prohibit the spread?

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