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Kenya on bird flu alert?

Posted on August 29, 2008

Via New Vision Online, a Ugandan news source: Kenya on bird flu alert. Excerpt:Kenya Government has banned with immediate effect the transportation of live birds and chicken by long distance trucks entering the country through Malaba and Busia as a caution to avian influenza which it said had reached Southern Sudan. Kenya has also banned transportation of cattle horns from Uganda and other Great Lakes countries by buses saying passengers risked contacting zoonotic diseases related to the horns. Livestock development ministry officials have been put on high alert at Malaba and Busia in Kenya to...

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