Imports of poultry from the US temporarily suspended due to bird flu.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has just issued a decision to temporarily suspend the import of poultry and poultry products from the United States...

Specifically, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's decision states that, starting March 10th, imports of poultry and poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment from Wisconsin and Tennessee will be temporarily suspended. The reason is the ongoing outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza H7 and low pathogenic avian influenza H5N2.

The Department of Animal Health is strictly controlling shipments of poultry and poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment from states experiencing avian influenza outbreaks but have not yet been loaded onto ships or planes for transport from the United States to Vietnam before March 10, 2017.

The Department of Animal Health has officially notified the competent authorities of the United States to coordinate implementation. At the same time, it is conducting inspections to confirm that the United States has controlled the avian influenza outbreak in accordance with the regulations of the World Organisation for Animal Health and reporting to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Earlier, the World Organisation for Animal Health announced that the United States had reported an outbreak of avian influenza at a poultry farm in Wisconsin, in the Midwest.

Accordingly, a low-pathogenic strain of the virus, H5N2, was detected in a flock of 84,000 turkeys in Barron County. The turkeys were subsequently sampled for testing and showed signs of depression. The farms with infected turkeys were quickly quarantined.

This outbreak occurred just a week after a flock of breeding chickens at a farm in Tennessee was found to be infected with the highly pathogenic H7 virus. 73,500 chickens died there, while those that survived suffered from respiratory problems and foaming at the mouth.

The incident led many Asian markets, such as South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (China), to immediately restrict imports of US eggs and poultry meat.

According to VnEconomy