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ALOR STAR: Fifteen more Veterinary Department officers are manning the Bukit Kayu Hitam border entry point to stop the movement of birds into the country. Its Kedah director, Dr Quaza Nizamuddin Hassan Nizam, said yesterday that there were now 20 officers carrying out checks in the area. “We are putting more men there to prevent any possible outbreak in Kedah,'' he said. |
Dr Quaza said the department had yet to receive a report from
the Ipoh Veterinary Research Institute on the 11 wild pigeons
and three free range chickens found dead in the state five days
ago. He said the department was still conducting random checks
on free range chickens at villages along Kedah’s border with
Perak and Penang. |
“All the 2,878 swabs taken from the birds had turned out to be negative,” he said, adding that the surveillance exercise covering areas within 10km radius of the affected zones would continue until Sunday. The second exercise will start tomorrow.
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