Materia Medica Malaysiana

Thailand, Malaysia to cooperate to combat bird flu


Thailand and Malaysia have agreed to cooperate to tackle bird flu along their common border and monitor poultry passing between the two countries.

The agreement, following a meeting between officials, included setting up border quarantine posts and a warning system to alert their neighbour of any new outbreak.

The two countries are among six Asian nations hit by a second wave of bird flu since July.

Cambodia has detected its first new cases of bird flu in chickens since March.

The disease has left 28 people dead in Thailand and Vietnam this year and killed millions of birds across the continent.