It looks like the recent bird flu outbreak in Kentucky may start to get some American media attention after Mexico and Singapore banned import of all poultry and poultry products from the state.
Forbes picked up this brief AP piece on Singapore’s ban, which excluded heat-processed poultry and egg products from the ban.
Bloomberg reported yesterday that Mexico, which is the 3rd-largest importer of U.S. chicken meat, also won’t accept uncooked poultry products from both Edmonson and Grayson counties in Kentucky. Similar bans have also been imposed by Russia, Japan, Colombia, Ecuador, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Avian influenza was detected earlier this month at a farm that produces hatching eggs for Perdue Farms Inc.
No transmission to humans has been reported. Similarly, area backyard chicken flocks have been spared contamination.
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