THE Sabah Veterinary Services Department culled about 10,000 chickens in Tamparuli, at a poultry farm where bird flu has been detected, said the health division deputy director Dr Peter Lee Ah Kong.

He said 18,000 chickens at another farm unaffected by the bird flu virus would be culled tomorrow.

“Although the disease has not been detected at the farm, the chickens there would be culled as it (farm) is located within a 1km radius of the farm where the disease was detected,” he told Bernama.

He said free range chickens of residents in areas where bird flu was detected would also be culled tomorrow night.

Lee said the department with the cooperation of the police would continue to maintain road blocks in the infected areas to ensure no birds were brought out of the areas.

The Sabah government on August 3 declared the Tuaran district as a bird flu outbreak area after a farm there tested positive for the disease. – Bernama, August 6, 2018.