Based on the recommendations of a committee of veterinary specialists, the Government has, on Saturday, decided to close down the city zoo till the foot and mouth disease situation subsides. A review meeting will be held after five days to take stock of the situation and to determine when the zoo can be reopened. The decision came soon after three black buck succumbed to the foot-and-mouth disease on Saturday. Two other buck that showed signs of having been infected with the FMD virus continued to be in quarantine on Saturday.
The recommendation to close down the zoo was made after a meeting of the technical committee set up recently to help the zoo authorities manage the FMD situation there. Saturday's meeting was chaired by Zoo Director Elcy George. The technical committee has also recommended that the zoo shape up on its sanitation front. Accordingly the zoo authorities have decided to divert the flow of storm water from the Museum police station side away from the zoo premises. Till now storm water from this area used to flow through the zoo premises, past animal enclosures, on its way to the city's sewerage network at a point behind the zoo.
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