South Africa is grappling with a resurgence of the H5N1 bird flu, following outbreaks on poultry farms in Tswaing and Mkhondo ...

The outbreaks hit an industry struggling from an electricity crisis. One expert said three recent bird flu outbreaks have caused losses of at least $25 million to South Africa's poultry industry.

H5N1 bird flu strain spreading to other mammals across U.S. 03:19 Cape Town, South Africa — South Africa has culled about 7.5 million chickens in an effort to contain dozens of outbreaks of two ...

South Africa has reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, on two poultry farms in the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Wednesday.

South Africa reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu on a farm in the eastern part of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday ...

Two bird flu outbreaks have been reported in South Africa, according to the WOAH. The bird flu strain that was detected was H7, a strain that has killed hundreds of millions of birds.

By 2005, the South Africa population had increased to 242 individual birds. By 2024, 304 individual birds were found . How did the wattled cranes move from Critically Endangered?

There are 147 bird species categorised as threatened or near-threatened in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini, according to the revised Red Data Book of Birds (RDB-online) launched by BirdLife.

The outbreaks hit an industry struggling from an electricity crisis. One expert said three recent bird flu outbreaks have caused losses of at least $25 million to South Africa's poultry industry.

Cranes are some of the world's most majestic birds, with 15 species found globally. Four of these are found in Africa. The wattled crane in South Africa was in decline, but seems to have turned a ...