Friday, July 27, 2012

Barbados bans all poultry products from Mexico

Mexican animal health officials examining poultry at a commercial farm in Jalisco in late June 2012. PHOTO/Mexico Agriculture Department

Barbados has banned the importation of live birds, poultry and poultry products from Mexico.

This drastic action has been taken by the Veterinary Services Department of the Ministry of Agriculture (Barbados) following a major outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H7N3, commonly referred to as bird flu, in the Western state of Jalisco,

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