South Korea halts poultry imports from British region due to bird flu outbreak

By Redacción PortalPortuario.cl/Agencia Yonhap, @PortalPortuario, The South Korean Government has said that it prohibited imports of poultry products from a British region where a case of avian influenza occurred., The measure comes after the highly reported strain H5N8 bird flu pathogen on a farm in the UK's north-western Cheshire county, the Yonhap agency said. The ban effectively blocks imports of all poultry and poultry products from the region, including meat from the region. chicken and duck, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the ministry has recently stepped up virus testing on imports of poultry and poultry products following cases of bird flu in Germany, the Netherlands, Israel ...