Jagran correspondent, Sambhal. The secret of death of monkeys in Atta village has not yet been revealed but now the series of mysterious deaths of monkeys has started in Chandausi city. More than 30 monkeys have died in the last 10 days. On Friday too, six monkeys died in agony due to an unknown disease.
Almost similar symptoms are visible in monkeys before dying. While more than a dozen monkeys are in a dying condition and are undergoing treatment. The social people who reached the information buried the dead monkeys.
On Friday morning, six monkeys were found lying dead in the crematorium located on Sita Road, Chandausi, while some monkeys were in a dying condition. When people came to know about this, a crowd gathered on the spot. People from the city like Mantesh Varshney, Vinod Sharma, Sachin Gupta, Anubhav Annu, Raghuveer Sharan etc. reached.
He immediately informed the death of the monkeys to Deputy CVO Dr. Ajay Kumar and the Forest Department. Also tried to provide relief by setting up a bonfire while handling the dying monkeys. Meanwhile, Deputy CVO reached the spot. He saw the condition of the monkeys and immediately started treatment.
People said that more than 30 monkeys have died of unknown disease in 10 days. All the monkeys are showing similar symptoms before dying. Deputy CVO prima facie believes the cause of death to be pneumonia. However, post mortem of the monkeys has not been done.
He says that almost similar symptoms were found in the monkeys that died recently in village Atta. The post-mortem of the dead monkey was done from there. Whose report has not been received yet. The cause of the monkeys' disease will be known when the report comes there.
Postmortem of monkeys was not done
On receiving information about the death of monkeys in Chandausi, Deputy CVO Dr. Ajay Kumar had reached Sita Road crematorium on Friday morning, but he did not send the bodies of the dead monkeys for post-mortem.
He argued that the condition of these monkeys was seen in Atta village in the past. Therefore, the cause of death of the monkeys will be known only from the post mortem report there.
Monkeys died in Atta village a month ago
Last month, more than 30 monkeys had died of an unknown disease in Atta village of Baniyather police station area. But the cause of his death has not been known yet. According to the villagers, all the monkeys had similar symptoms before they died.
After coming to the notice of the administration, the bodies of the monkeys were sent to Bareilly for post-mortem. The report was to come on January 8 but the post mortem report has not been received yet. The Animal Husbandry Department is still waiting for the report.
The monkeys who have died or are sick in Chandausi are mainly showing symptoms like bleeding from nose and mouth, diarrhoea, lifelessness, tail falling and body hair standing up.
Information about Badar being ill was received on Thursday night. Only then the treatment was started. Prima facie the cause of death of the monkeys appears to be pneumonia. The symptoms seen in the monkeys in Atta village seem to be similar to the disease. The exact reason will be known once the post mortem report comes.
- Dr. Ajay Kumar, Deputy CVO