Check all birds
The Star, 22 Mar 2006

TAKING NO CHANCES : Veterinary officers rounding up chicks for culling at the Titi Gantung Agriculture Training Institute in Bota after the deadly H5N1 virus was found there.

ALL states have been ordered to conduct comprehensive sampling of birds nationwide following the discovery of three new bird flu cases in Perak yesterday. 

 

“Previously, sampling was done in affected areas only, but now it has to be carried out in all states,” Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said at the Parliament lobby. 

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the Government was prepared for further outbreaks of bird flu. 

  New bird flu cases detected in Kampung Changkat Legong near Gopeng, at the Titi Gantung Agriculture  Training Institute in Bota, and in Taman Lapangan Perdana, Ipoh 

  FT and Perak ban open slaughter of poultry in wet markets 

  Parliament debates bird flu action plan 

  Migratory birds the likely cause of bird flu in Malaysia