Bird Flu Outbreak 2024 South Africa

Bird Flu Outbreak 2024 South Africa. The world health organization on wednesday declared the spread of mpox in multiple african countries a public health emergency of international. South africa's rcl foods said on thursday its poultry unit rainbow has culled 410,000 chickens due to the country's worst outbreak of avian flu, heightening fears of chicken meat and egg.

These cases are part of a global outbreak which began in 2022. Avian influenza (bird flu) outbreaks of highly pathogenic h7n6 avian flu that began at the end of may have led to the loss of about a quarter of south africa’s poultry, with layer farms hit hardest, according to a poultry industry official quoted in a south african agriculture publication.