Tests conducted in a sophisticated lab in London have confirmed the prevalence of bird flu, the Avian Influenza H5N1 virus, in Pokhara.

Spokesperson at the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Dr Hari Dahal told the media Wednesday, all six samples collected from the poultry farm of a local farmer Gyan Bahadur Khadka tested positive to the H5N1 virus when tested at London�s Weybridge Lab.

The samples were sent to London after they tested positive to H5 virus in a test in Nepal. Health authorities had collected the samples for test after about 100 chickens and 38 ducks in Khadka's farm died earlier in January.

Meanwhile, the government has formed a committee headed by Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Mrigendra Kumar Singh Yadav and directed it to take necessary measures to control the spread of the disease.