16.07.2015

The Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen (GNAFF) has in a statement indicated that Ghana may be losing the fight against eradication of avian influenza.
The Ministries of Health, Food and Agriculture have run out of the necessary chemicals, logistics and human resource for testing, control, eradication and prevention of avian influenza in the country. 
Ghana has banned the sale and transport of live poultry after the H5N1 virus killed thousands of birds, there has been no record of human infection. 
The Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen said 40,000 birds, 1,300 crates of eggs and 37 bags of feed had been destroyed in 16 major poultry farms in Greater Accra, Ashanti and Volta regions.