[TOP STORY] Farmers urged to increase precautions to prevent avian flu spread

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‘These things mutate and you think you are getting a handle on the H5 that is currently circulating, but two, three months down the line, it's something else different that now evades the measures that you have in place that you are using to contain it,’ says Dr Mpho Maja, director of Animal Health at the Department of Agriculture.

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