Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

It was on the 20 th of May, 2009, I first published the news of the mysterious death of pigeons all over Singtambazaar on my blog . The pigeons were found dead on roads, house stairs drains, house roofs, and everywhere it was found. People denied any sort of Bird Flu but talked about some sort of disease in their head and die within a day. The death of pigeons did not stop for the next one and half months and on average 30 to 40 deaths were reported. The strange death of this avian creature was published in the newspapers and one of the national newspapers went on to say more than 10,000 deaths had occurred. It was false news but to my research, the death case had been around 2000.   I was too curious to know about its death and I closely held one dead bird from the nearby bazaar food go-down premises and found a small fly-like insect with a pointed antenna. These pigeons are being preyed to these small blood-sucking flies. Those flies carry infectious diseases that r...

from Statesman GANGTOK, 25 JUNE: The Sikkim state animal husbandry department set at rest all the speculations doing rounds regarding bird flu outbreak in the wake of large scale pigeon deaths at Singtam in East Sikkim, saying that the pathological probe has ascribed deaths to some blood sucking parasites. According to Dr KC Bhutia, joint director, Disease Investigation Cell, state animal husbandry department, the investigation into the first batch of samples sent to the Regional Disease Diagnostics Laboratory of Guwahati, has attributed bacterial infection to the pigeon deaths. “The birds getting wet during the rains created conditions conducive for the parasites to breed,” Dr Bhutia said. As per the official records, 56 cases of unnatural pigeon deaths over the past two months have been reported from a particular region of the state. Springing into action with flu panic spreading among people, the state animal husbandry department has pressed into service a full...

I was going through the internet news about the diseased death of 10,000 pigeons at Singtam which is not at all correct. So far no exact data had been collected but as i had been following the death of these birds, according to me the death of these pigeons are below 4000. The mysterious death of the pigeons at Singtam Bazaar had started since early May and over the month the death of these avian had not stopped. Each day around 30-40 pigeons die. A dead pigeon lying in drainage Today i was at bazaar late evening and found more than twenty pigeons that was lying dead on different corners and more than a dozen more in pity condition. These pigeons are being prey to small flies. Those flies carries infectious disease that results in loss of feathers on neck and on body and skin inflammation. These parasitic flies are seen through the naked eyes lying inside the feathers and around neck feather. A diseased pigeon found near Food Office The people of Singtam fear that the ...

Today i visited the Singtam Bazaar and was amazed to find that dead pigeons found scattered all around. People do say that these pigeon does have some sort of disease in their head and die within a day. The people do not deny that so-called Bird Flu might be back in the town but is also waiting for some inspection from the concern department too.