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IPOH: A father and son warded at the Batu Gajah Hospital for fever and influenza, following checks on Thursday in two places where the H5N1 virus was found, have been discharged. They were allowed to go home at 5pm yesterday after testing negative for the bird flu, said Perak Agriculture, Agro-based Industry and Tourism committee chairman Datuk Mohd Radzi Manan.
The two were among 298 people from 68 households which were checked by a medical team after the H5N1 virus was detected at Kampung Changkat Tualang, near Gopeng, and Bukit Merah Laketown. |
Mohd Radzi said test samples obtained from areas outside affected areas showed no traces of the bird flu virus. “There have been no new cases reported in the state since last week,” he added. Meanwhile, the state Veterinary Services department said it had culled poultry and birds in Kampung Changkat Tualang and areas within 1km of the village since the H5N1 virus was detected there. Assistant veterinary officer A. Muniandy said they included chickens (8,000), free-range chickens (1,341), ducks (31,110) and free-range ducks (15). Also culled were birds (25), quails (six) and geese (three). The department also destroyed 882 eggs, he said, adding that officers from the department went on their final rounds at 3pm yesterday to |
make sure all birds and poultry in the area had been destroyed. “We will continue to gather samples for testing within a 10km radius of the village,” he said. Last Thursday, 249 birds from 30 species at the EcoPark of the Bukit Merah Laketown resort, near Taiping, were culled. A spokesman from the department’s hotline said they received a report of seven dead pigeons in Sitiawan, about 88km from here. Samples have been sent for testing for the deadly H5N1 virus, he said.
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