PUTRAJAYA: Health officers are going from house to house to check for flu symptoms among the residents within a 300m radius of the area in Jalan Genting Klang in Setapak where 40 kampung (free range) chickens died of the H5N1 strain of the avian flu.
Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek said Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL), one of the 21 centres designated to care for bird flu patients, had been put on standby.
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