Astral Foods Ltd., one of South Africa’s biggest poultry producers by revenue, will start vaccinating chickens against bird ...

Following a prolonged but ultimately successful application process, South Africa’s largest poultry company has become the ...

The Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, is pleased to announce that, in the coming days, South Africa will embark on its first-ever vaccination of poultry as a proactive measure to minimise the ...

As bird flu cases rise in the US, South Africa's desperate need for chicken imports leads to a crucial agreement with the US government ...

South Africa's poultry industry is set to benefit from the government's first mass vaccination programme against avian influenza, ensuring food safety and biosecurity while addressing public ...

As South Africa grapples with outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease and avian influenza, the meat industry faces unprecedented challenges, threatening supply chains and pushing prices for essential ...

In 2020, when avian flu caused devastating losses in seabird colonies in Europe and Southern Africa, experts initially thought the virus’s spread to mammals would be limited to terrestrial ...

1961 – The H5N1 strain is isolated in birds in South Africa. ... Delaware, after they are found to be infected with the H7 virus. October 7, 2005 – The avian flu reaches Europe.

JSE-listed poultry producer Astral Foods has been given official approval to begin vaccinating its broiler breeding stock ...

On a global scale, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus is spreading southwards in wild waterfowl into Central and South America, with associated spillover into domestic birds.