Bird flu: 10 poultry farmers quarantined in Kpone
Ten workers of a poultry farm in Kpone, Tema in the Greater Accra Region have been quarantined following their contact with birds affected by bird flu, the Head of Public Health at the Veterinary Service, Dr Bashiru Boi Kiki-Moto has confirmed.
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The 10 have been isolated pending screening for symptoms of the deadly flu.
The entire farm has also been quarantined and no one is allowed entry except veterinary doctors.
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture Wednesday confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in Ghana after test results from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Laboratory in Padova, Italy proved positive.
According to Dr. Kiki-Moto, the 10 isolated persons have had direct contact with the birds and thus, they are not allowed to leave the farm but “they can send their families out.’
The farm has over 1,000 birds and after screening, they will be destroyed through burning.
He also stated that another farm in Kpone which had over 35,000 birds was early on quarantined and the birds have since been destroyed.
“On Monday, all the birds were destroyed…the place has been disinfected. The first round has been done and they are now on the second round of disinfection,” he said.
He said the farms in Tema and Achimota which had the first outbreak have already been screened.
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