# The Wider Cost of Zimbabwe’s Bird Flu Outbreak
						 | The Poultry Site

> Zimbabwe's H5N8 outbreak at an Irvines poultry operation outside Harare led to the culling of 140,000 birds, after an estimated 7,000 died. Botswana cancelled poultry import permits for Zimbabwean exporters, and Mozambique and South Africa moved to halt chicken product shipments from Harare.

- Date: 2017-08-03 · published 2017-08-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region Zimbabwe · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/69311-the-wider-cost-of-zimbabwe-s-bird-flu-outbreak-the-poultry-site
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Regional trade bans cut chicken import and export flows in southern Africa, which may shift demand toward other suppliers and weigh on local poultry margins.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bullish ▲

## Sources

- thepoultrysite.com: https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/the-wider-cost-of-zimbabwes-bird-flu-outbreak

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