Less than a week after a poultry farm outbreak was reported in neighboring Senegal. The highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu has been detected in the Gambia.
Following reports of odd bird deaths, samples were collected from the Tanji Bird Reserve in the Gambia. It is located approximately 20 kilometers from the city of Banjul.
The High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) type H5N1 was confirmed in Dakar laboratory samples on April 1. According to a statement issued on Wednesday.
According to the report, authorities are collaborating closely to reduce the infection pressure among migratory birds in order to prevent the spread to domestic poultry.
In the past year, more than 200 million poultry have been killed by avian influenza. Causing egg prices to skyrocket and increasing government concern about human transmission.
Senegal, which shares nearly all of its borders with the Gambia, reported an H5N1 outbreak on a poultry farm in the northwest of the West African nation on Friday.
On March 10, an H5N1 HPAI bird flu outbreak was discovered in Langue de Barbarie National Park; this epidemic began on March 18 on a farm in the village of Potou, close to the town of Louga.
On March 8, Senegalese authorities announced that samples collected from migrating royal and sandwich tern birds around Pink Lake and Yoff Island near Dakar contained the same disease.
The epidemic at the Potou poultry farm claimed the lives of 500 fowl, and the remaining 11,400 animals were slaughtered. Senegal has received over 1,700 reports of dead birds in the outdoors.
