Hyderabad, March 22 -- The presence of bird flu has been confirmed at two poultry farms in Gundrampally village of Chityal mandal and Dhothigudem in Bhoodan-Pochampally mandal in Telangana's Nalgonda district.

According to local reports, samples were sent to the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, where they tested positive for the virus.

Soon after the confirmation, officials at the Animal Husbandry department launched a culling operation in the two affected poultry farms. Around two lakh chickens were stated to have been culled in Gundrampally while 40,000 in Dhothigudem, according to district veterinary and animal husbandry officer V Krishna.

Officials sanitised and declared the poultries a...