Avian influenza in Cameroon

27.05.2016

An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been reported in Yaoundé. On Sunday 22 of May 2016, the Epidemiological surveillance network of the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industry observed high mortalities in poultry within the breeders rearing facilities of the Poultry complex in Mvog Betsi, Yaoundé.
The farm contains 33,000 birds.