45,000 hens burns in Mozambique to combat bird flu

Officials in southern Mozambique have killed, burned, and buried over 45,000 hens to stop the spread of bird flu.

The birds were brought in from South Africa, which has seen a large number of cases of the disease.

The disease has now spread to a district called Morrumbene in Mozambique’s southern province of Inhambane.

Officials are trying to control it as worries increase that it could move to different areas of the country.

Bird flu is a sickness that can spread among chickens, ducks, and other birds in the wild.

This disease can spread quickly among groups of pet birds in just a few days. It can be transmitted through their droppings, spit, or by consuming contaminated food and water.

The outbreak has caused a lack of eggs and chickens, and prices have gone up a lot in recent days in Mozambique, including in the main city Maputo.

The cost of chicken has almost doubled, going from 350 Mozambican metical to 600. Similarly, the price of a dozen eggs has increased from 100 metical to 150.

The 45,000 chickens that were burned had been around chickens in South Africa that had bird flu, according to Américo da Conceição, Mozambique’s National Director of Livestock Development.

The chickens were brought to Mozambique specifically to lay eggs.

South Africa has been dealing with a severe bird flu problem. To control it, poultry farmers had to kill seven million hens that lay eggs. This accounts for about 20-30% of all the hens in the country. The South African Poultry Association provided this information.

The spread of the disease has made it difficult to find enough eggs and chicken meat in the country.

Mr Da Conceicao said that Mozambique has stopped allowing chickens and chicken-related products, like eggs and chicken feed, to be imported from South Africa.

The government has also banned the movement of chickens, eggs, and animal feed from Morrumbene, which is the main area affected by the outbreak, to other places in Mozambique.

Officials said the chickens were cooked to stop people from taking and eating them after they were killed.