Reports of contagious bird flu in Malaysia
Published: 6:30 pm, Thursday, 9 March 2017
Malaysia has reported an outbreak of a highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus in the northern part of the country.
The World Organisation for Animal Health has cited a report from the Malaysian agriculture ministry, which says the strain's been confirmed among chickens at a backyard farm in Kelantan.
The H5N1 strain has been detected in Cambodia in recent weeks, but is different to the H7N9 virus that has caused the death of more than 110 people in China.
AAP