Togolese authorities have slaughtered 11,500 chickens in response to an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu at two farms in the capital Lome and the town of Adetikope.
The Highly pathogenic bird flu has spread across a number of West African countries in the past two years, hitting poultry farms in Niger and Cameroon.
The outbreaks across West Africa have raised fears of transmission to humans, given poor health infrastructure in the region, and a number of deaths since the virus first infected humans in 1997 during an outbreak in a Hong Kong poultry.
Courtesy of africa.tvcnews.tv
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