Malaysia announces new bird flu outbreak
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KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia Monday announced a new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in a village in the northern state of Penang.
The outbreak, the third in less than a week, was detected in six dead birds in the village of Permatang Bagak, said Mustapa Jalil, acting director-general of the Veterinary Services Department.
"We have activated a rapid action team which will slaughter all the birds in the area," he told AFP.
Most of the birds in the village are free-range chickens, he said, adding that there were at least 200 of them.
The health department has also been alerted, he said.
The village is located in the north of mainland Penang, which borders Perak state where the two earlier outbreaks were announced Thursday.
Mainland Penang is just across a narrow channel from its popular resort island.
The head of the Veterinary Department's disease control unit, Kamaruddin Mat Isa, said officials did not know how the virus was being spread, but said the latest outbreak was not linked to the Perak outbreaks.
"I don't think it has come from Perak. It has not spread from Perak to Penang," Kamaruddin told AFP, adding that officials Sunday had completed the slaughter of more than 40,000 birds in Perak to contain the disease.
"It's not spread from one location to the surrounding area, but there are multiple locations," he said, confirming that officials were worried over the development.
Kamaruddin said the slaughter of birds within a one-kilometre radius of the Penang village was due to start late Monday.
The Health Ministry's director for disease control, Ramlee Rahmat, said officials would start conducting door-to-door checks Tuesday in the area around the latest outbreak to check for people with symptoms of the virus.
"It is still localised in three different areas," he said of the outbreaks.
No human cases of bird flu have been reported so far in Malaysia.
Malaysia on Thursday announced the two outbreaks of the bird flu virus at a village and a nature reserve near the Perak border with Penang.
Perak has one of the country's biggest poultry industries.
Agriculture Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was quoted as saying by the national Bernama news agency Monday that a poultry quarantine had been imposed on Perak, and that all poultry was banned from leaving the state.
H5N1 was detected last month in 40 free-range chickens in four villages on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, the first outbreak in the country in more than a year.
About 100 people have died from bird flu since 2003, most of them in Asia. - AFP/ch -
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The duck farm owners at Perak had wanted to send the ducks to Johor bef sending to Singapore
Malaysian govt has warned them of AVA's ban -
haha..no poultary will be send across penang,perak.,and selangor's borders...Originally posted by sbst275:The duck farm owners at Perak had wanted to send the ducks to Johor bef sending to Singapore
Malaysian govt has warned them of AVA's ban
if JB were to have the outbreak..
then sg no need eat malaysian duck and chicken... -
sooner or later it will hit Singapore.
Most likely end of this month. -
Most fear is Malacca, most of eggs and chicken are from thereOriginally posted by contact:haha..no poultary will be send across penang,perak.,and selangor's borders...
if JB were to have the outbreak..
then sg no need eat malaysian duck and chicken...
Duck? Perak provides 90% of duck supplies to Singapore -
SG got chicken or bird?>Originally posted by Deportivo:sooner or later it will hit Singapore.
Most likely end of this month.
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act is that JB were to have an outbreak..Originally posted by sbst275:Most fear is Malacca, most of eggs and chicken are from there
Duck? Perak provides 90% of duck supplies to Singapore
poultry still can be send to sg..
but via ports and airplane..
so the extra costs is bore by u all in the end.. -
Still gotOriginally posted by contact:SG got chicken or bird?>
haha...
For eggs -
SorryOriginally posted by contact:act is that JB were to have an outbreak..
poultry still can be send to sg..
but via ports and airplane..
so the extra costs is bore by u all in the end..
Only Fresh Alive Poultry are allowed into Singapore. That is via Land -
its either you are stupid, or you didn't think before you post the reply/Originally posted by contact:SG got chicken or bird?>
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Malaysia has now imposed total ban on live slaughter at the wet markets
But now comes, how are they going to slaughter the chicken?
Anyway, there are still stall owners flouting the rules as seen on CNA