Central Travancore, a sitting duck to avian flu

Kerala’s Kuttanad region is battling another devastating outbreak of bird flu, but this time the disease has spread beyond the region and infected crows, kites, pigeons and herons unlike previous times when it was restricted mostly to poultry in Kuttanad. For the first time though, there’s fear of the loss of livelihoods and an anxiety of humans contracting the disease, reports Sam Paul A.