Bird Flu Outbreak 2024 South Africa. South africa faces chicken shortages in the coming months as a bird flu outbreak and persistent electricity cuts ravage the poultry industry, the country’s largest producer astral foods. At least 205,000 chickens have died from bird flu in at least 60 separate outbreaks across the country, with more than half of those outbreaks in gauteng.

Over the months of april and may 2021, south africa has witnessed several outbreaks of highly infective avian influenza (h5n1) in different poultry farms. The south african poultry association (sapa) says they have not.