India's H5N1 avian influenza virus has been confirmed at a poultry training centre in Mathkuru village, Hesaraghatta, on the outskirts of Bengaluru, Karnataka state authorities announced on April 17. The infection was verified on April 14 by the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal, prompting rapid response teams to visit the site two days later. A 3-km radius around the facility has been declared an infected zone and a 10-km radius designated a surveillance zone, though state health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao urged the public not to panic.