The Health Ministry said that 94 of 95 samples tested negative of bird flu virus. The Ministry said that barring one case, the National Institute of Virology (NIV) at Pune and National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) in Delhi confirmed the rest negative. The Ministry claimed that its rapid response team is carrying out house-to-house surveillance in affected areas of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In Navapur district of Maharashtra, over 30,000 people and an additional 27,000 people in neighboring villages have been surveyed and only 12 people whose poultry has been affected suffer from Upper respiratory Infection (URI). In Gujarat, it said that 540 people in a population of 47,000 people have reported fever of which 471 have URI. Those working on culling including veterinarians, cullers, laborers, and poultry workers are all healthy. So far 253,000 birds have been culled, 587,000 eggs buried, and 2,500 tons of fecal matter and bird feed disposed. The 60 Government teams have overcome a lot of resistance from poultry farm owners and managed to inspect 52 farms shutting down 6 of them