RANAU: The town’s Urban Wellbeing Committee (JKDB) is collaborating with the Ranau District Council (MDR), Sabah Veterinary Department and District Health Department to deal with the stray dogs woe here.
A Toyota Vigo belonging to the Sabah Veterinary Department and a six-tonne lorry were damaged after they collided with a moving passenger train at the traffic light junction near Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA), here, Thursday
IT is strange that even after 60 years, Independent Sabah (Malaysia) still maintain colonial policies and Laws. The Veterinary Department of Sabah, whose officers mostly graduated from Bogor University in Indonesia, maintain the policy which only allows the importation of live cattle or livestock from Australia or New Zealand.
Reason given is that both countries are islands and the cattle and also perhaps managed by white man.
The Department made it quite clear that it will not allow importation of live cattle or goats from other countries, such as China, Indo China, Indonesia or South Africa.
This monopolistic policy maintained by the Veterinary Department allows Australia and New Zealand to command prices that are at least 40pc higher than those from disallowed countries.
And yet the disallowed countries offer much better looking and healthier livestock than those from Australia or New Zealand
KOTA KINABALU: The first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) has been detected in an interior district in Sabah since the January outbreak that affected mainly the northern and eastern parts of the state.
The State Veterinary Services Department (DVS) has reported at least one case of ASF in the interior Nabawan, bringing the number of affected districts to 10.
Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan said that as of April 18, a total of 169 wild bearded pigs had been confirmed positive for ASF.
“In addition, we have culled 398 head of backyard pigs while 535 have died because of the fever.
Mysterious deaths: Wild boars found dead near a ditch at a lodge in Sabah’s Sukau area.
KOTA KINABALU: Authorities are getting more reports of wild boars and domestic pigs dying in the east coast areas of Sabah.
However, there is no confirmation so far by either the Sabah Veterinary Department or Sabah Wildlife Department that the deaths were linked to the African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak in Sabah’s northern Pitas district where culling of livestock is taking place.
As of Thursday, staff of a lodge in Sabah’s eastern Sukau area under Kinabatangan reported the deaths of three wild boars or bearded pigs within their compounds.