Ghana culls thousands of chickens, bans poultry movement amid avian flu outbreak

Ghana has destroyed 4,500 chickens and restricted the movement of poultry after nearly 6,000 birds were found to have died of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu, the country’s veterinary services director said on Saturday.

The birds originated from seven farms in Ghana’s Greater Accra, Central, and Volta regions, and poultry movement from those regions has been banned, veterinary director Patrick Abakeh said.

Ghana has also suspended poultry imports from Togo, Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mauritania, and Senegal as a precaution, Abakeh said. Togo last month culled thousands of birds in response to its own H5N1 outbreak.

The cases mark Ghana’s fourth outbreak of avian flu since 2015.

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