22.06.2017

South Africa reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza on a commercial broiler breeder farm in Mpumalanga province.
The farm contain 24,000-birds all will be culled.
Two other African nations—the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe—reported their first H5N8 outbreaks over the past few weeks. Other African countries affected by the virus over the past several months are Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria, Tunisia, and Uganda.