Argentina has announced the automatic suspension of poultry exports after discovering a case of bird flu on a chicken farm.
In a statement late Tuesday, the Senasa food health agency said a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) had been found in the province of Rio Negro, in an area some 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) south of Buenos Aires.
It was the first case detected in a broiler chicken on an Argentine farm, Agriculture Minister Juan Jose Bahillo said on Twitter, as the world deals with a fierce outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus also detected in mammals and recently a few humans.
Senasa said poultry production for domestic consumption will continue, “as HPAI is not transmitted through the consumption of chicken meat and eggs.”
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