(Business in Cameroon) - The administrative authorities of the city of Makénéné, a town located on the road linking the Western and Central regions of Cameroon, have just intercepted a cargo of 300 crates of egg coming from the Western region, and meant to supply the markets of the Cameroonian capital.

These eggs, whose transporter held fake health check documents, supposedly issued by the officials of the Ministry of Livestock in the Western region, were immediately destroyed. This, in accordance with the decision banning the sale of poultry products from the Mifi district (Western region), suffering from the reoccurrence of the bird flu epizooty.

Indeed, after the discovery of the first cases of poultry infected with the H5N1 virus in May earlier this year, samples taken at beginning of September in a farm from the Mifi district revealed new infections, when the government had just lifted the ban on the sale of chicken in this part of the country, following the May 2016 epizooty.

BRM