Pathfinder
Editor, Senior Moderator
Health News of Saturday, 8 August 2015
Source: GNA
?Ghana needs concerted efforts to fight Bird Flu?
The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in charge of Livestock, Dr Hannah Bissiw, has called for concerted efforts to combat the spread of the H5N1 bird flu being recorded in some parts of the country.
She said it was important to collectively fight the flu, because the strain of the avian influenza occurring in the country was the aggressive type which could be transmitted from animals to humans.
Dr Bissiw who made the call during the opening of the 19th Biennial Conference of the Ghana Society of Animal Production in Cape Coast, regretted that not much attention was given to the outbreak which remained a risk to all.
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The Minister said the disease came at a time everything was being done to revive the poultry industry in the country, which she stated was saddled with a number of problems, including the lack of hatcheries and the high importation of poultry and poultry products.
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http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePa...ds-concerted-efforts-to-fight-Bird-Flu-373781
Source: GNA
?Ghana needs concerted efforts to fight Bird Flu?
The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in charge of Livestock, Dr Hannah Bissiw, has called for concerted efforts to combat the spread of the H5N1 bird flu being recorded in some parts of the country.
She said it was important to collectively fight the flu, because the strain of the avian influenza occurring in the country was the aggressive type which could be transmitted from animals to humans.
Dr Bissiw who made the call during the opening of the 19th Biennial Conference of the Ghana Society of Animal Production in Cape Coast, regretted that not much attention was given to the outbreak which remained a risk to all.
...
The Minister said the disease came at a time everything was being done to revive the poultry industry in the country, which she stated was saddled with a number of problems, including the lack of hatcheries and the high importation of poultry and poultry products.
...
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePa...ds-concerted-efforts-to-fight-Bird-Flu-373781