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Controlling highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in Ghana-TCP/GHA/3505

Year of publication 2017

Pages 2p.

Publisher FAO ;

Category Factsheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Livestock and poultry-keeping are crucial to the farming and livelihood systems of Ghana. In May 2015, outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) threatened these systems and made it essential that measures be put in place to forestall losses caused by the disease in the affected areas and elsewhere. The project was designed to control the disease in Ghana and, above all, to prevent its spread to non-affected regions of the country and to neighbouringcountries, by means of an immediat e response.

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