Producer Quantum Foods said on Friday that this year it had lost almost two million chickens—worth a total of more than 100 million rand —because of the disease.is the worst that South Africa has witnessed," fellow producer Astral said in a trading update on Thursday.
Earlier this month, the South African Poultry Association said the country was contending with two different strains of the virus, the infamous H5N1 and a new strain identified as H7N6. Bird flu does not typically infect humans. But H5N1 is increasingly infecting mammals worldwide, from sea lions in Argentina to foxes in Finland, raising fears it could pass on more easily to humans.
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