Japan suspends imports of British poultry due to bird flu

by Sanjay Jha | June 4, 2008 at 06:51 am | 615 views | 7 comments

Japan has second time suspended imports of British poultry due to concerns about bird flu in last 7 months. 

Japan said Wednesday that it was suspending imports of poultry from Britain after a bird flu outbreak on a farm there.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement that the suspension was expected to be a temporary measure aimed at reducing the risk of fresh bird flu outbreaks in Japan.

The move came a day after the British authorities confirmed that avian influenza had been discovered in chickens in southern England, although it was not the virulent H5N1 strain that sometimes claims human lives.

Preliminary tests were positive for the H7 strain, which poses a low risk to humans, the British Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said in a statement posted on its website.

All birds on the premises where the virus was detected will be slaughtered, it added.

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Dave Keating
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michelle.sundvick
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tigerlilygirl99

These are healthy American chickens

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Olafur

The Icelandic settlement poultry are a rather large, hardy, multicoloured breed, imported by the Vikings that discovered Iceland around ~AD 850

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Joey 7

A very happy and healthy chicken in the UK.

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shotboy2013

This photograph is of the farm breed chicken in Guwahati, Assam of India, which is a bordering state of the country to Myanmar (Burma) where hundreds were feared to be dead or dying of Bird Flu. Photo: Utpalendra Kumar Deka, Guwahati, India

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June 4, 2008 at 06:51 am by Sanjay Jha, 615 views, 7 comments

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