The South African Poultry Association’s General Manager, Dr Abongile Balarane, says the country relies on about 27 million layer hens to produce eggs every day.
‘These things mutate and you think you are getting a handle on the H5 that is currently circulating, but two, three months down the line, it s something else different that now evades the measures that you have in place that you are using to contain it,’ says Dr Mpho Maja, director of Animal Health at the Department of Agriculture.
Sparked by a string of fatal rabies cases this year, South African health officials have a message for visitors to the resorts along its famous coastline and nature preserves that dot the country's interior: Stay away from stray dogs.