In a statement released by the country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources, the Minister, Geraldine Mukeshimana informed all Rwandan business operators involved in the importation of poultry products from Uganda and Europe to stop imports
“We call upon all Rwandan business operators importing all poultry products from Uganda and Europe to cease with immediate effect. The disease is of great concern to our poultry industry and to humans,’’ said Geraldine.
Expressing the the need for quarantine efforts to be heightened has become increasingly necessary, Mukeshimana stated that poultry farmers must keep domestic birds indoors to avoid them interacting with wild birds. He also added that people must stay away from carcass of wild birds and report any case of mass deaths of birds both domestic and wild to any nearest government authority.
The Minister also stressed the need for poultry farmers to ensure essential bio-security measures and standard hygiene precautions as well as early detection, immediate reporting and rapid response.
Meanwhile, Uganda has also confirmed the outbreak of the flu in wild terns – seabirds, and domestic birds which has led to mass deaths of wild birds on the shores of Lake Victoria in the country. This was confirmed in a statement released by the Ugandan Ministry of agriculture.
“The species so far hit by the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or HPAI, are migratory white-winged black terns as well as domestic ducks and chickens’’, it reads.
The outbreak of the flu has also been reported in countries across Europe, including Hungry, Germany, France, Denmark, Czech Republic, Croatia, Romania and the United Kingdom.
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