Malaysia gasses chickens in battle against bird flu

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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia - Malaysia gassed hundreds of screeching birds in a village near the Thai border early August seeking a quick end to its first outbreak of bird flu, a scourge that killed 27 people in Southeast Asia this year. Malaysia banned exports of poultry and slapped a quarantine for 10 km. around a property where found recently to have avian influenza. The recent deaths of three people in Vietnam have been blamed on the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. That strain was also blamed for 16 deaths there and eight in Thailand early this year.