Top South Africa Poultry Producer Starts Bird Flu Vaccination

Astral Foods Ltd., one of South Africa’s biggest poultry producers by revenue, will start vaccinating chickens against bird flu after getting approval from the nation’s agriculture department.

The company will start immunization against the H5 strain of the avian influenza virus at one of its large broiler breeding farms in the Gauteng province, it said in an emailed statement on Monday. It will use a commercially available shot supplied by an international manufacturer.