24.12.2013

One ostrich from a commercial flock of 1,000 birds was found to have H7N7 low-pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) virus in October 2013. The H7N7 subtype of the LPAI virus in a single bird in a commercial flock of 1,005 ostriches was found on a farm at Oudtshoorn in Western Cape Province in early October.

This was the 10th farm to have reported this virus sub-type but the first since the end of May 2013.