Tanzania: Zanzibar Tightens Import Controls Over Bird Flu Threat

Stone Town, Zanzibar — Authorities on Tanzania's semiautonomous island of Zanzibar have intensified efforts to control the importation of chicken in a bid to check the threat of bird flu on the island.

Hundreds of chickens smuggled onto Zanzibar mainland Tanzania were burned last week after importers failed to send them back.

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