kolkata describing the outbreak of bird flu in west bengal as alarming the state government on friday said it has targeted culling of four lakh poultry in the affected areas to check the diseasewe will have to kill four lakh birds in the affected districts for this we have decided to increase the strength of the culling teams chief minister buddhadeb bhattacharjee told newsmen after a meeting with central livestock commissioner s k banerjee state animal resources development minister anisur rehman and health minister s k mishrait had been decided that poultry in 510 km radius of the affected areas would be culled and the process would be completed within seven days he saidrampurhat subdivision of birbhum district was the worst affected followed by balurghat in west dinajpur district bhattacharjee saidstating that 60 teams of animal husbandry workers were working in the affected areas to cull the birds the chief minister said medical teams were also sent to the affected areas to find out whether the disease has affected any human beingisolation wards have been kept ready in all subdivisional hospitals for treating the affected and medical college hospitals of burdwan bankura and east midnapore districts have also been put on alert he addedregarding compensation to the poultry owners the chief minister said the state finance department has allotted rs 3 crore for the purposethe owners of poultry in the affected areas would however not be allowed to do business for the next three months bhattacharjee said