Brazil, the world’s largest chicken exporter, confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu on a poultry farm on Friday, triggering a country-wide trade ban from China and state-wide restrictions for other major consumers.
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Bird flu in top chicken exporter Brazil triggers trade bans
Hong Kong suspends exports from Manitoba region due to bird flu
Hong Kong has suspended poultry imports from Manitoba’s RM of Wallace-Woodworth due to bird flu cases in the area, despite lack of poultry imports from Canada
Hong Kong has nixed poultry shipments from the RM of Wallace due to bird flu cases in the area, despite lack of poultry imports from Canada
U.S. playing with bird flu fire
Good disease management is also good trade management, keeping markets open
Controversial comments from U.S. top officials do nothing to reassure American poultry trading partners that bird flu in the country is under control.
Is supply management shielding Canada’s poultry and egg farmers from bird flu?
Supply managment experts say Canadian system encourages smaller farms, and that helps limit spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza; U.S. industry disagrees
Supply managment experts say Canadian system encourages smaller farms, and that helps limit spread of highlypathogenic avian influenza; U.S. industry disagrees.
Quebec hatcheries automate chick sexing
WingScan device uses artificial intelligence to recognize chick wings and seperate sexes
Artificial intelligence is helping sex broiler chicks at hatcheries in Quebec. The hatcheries have been implementing WingScan, which recognizes chick wings, automating the process.
Live poultry markets in New York City, suburbs shut over bird flu
Bird flu detected at seven locations
Authorities in New York state have temporarily closed all live poultry markets in New York City and three suburban counties after detecting bird flu at seven markets within the past week, according to a notice on Friday.
New Zealand suspends poultry exports after first case of H7 bird flu
New Zealand said on Monday that it had suspended all poultry exports after detecting a highly pathogenic variant of avian influenza at a poultry farm on the South Island.
HPAI cases rise in B.C. amid birds migrating south for winter
British Columbia poultry farms are particularly vulnerable to highly pathenogenic avian influenza due to the annual migration of waterfowl through the Fraser Valley.
U.S. farmers call for vaccine option to fight bird flu as wildfowl migration begins
U.S. farmers are increasing pressure to allow vaccinations for chickens, turkeys and cows to protect them from bird flu infections that have devastated flocks for three years,
Bird flu spreads to California dairy cows
Cows at three dairy farms in California tested positive for H5N1 bird flu at the end of August, marking an expansion of the virus into the largest dairy producing region of the United States, according to an announcement from the state’s agriculture department. More than 190 herds have been infected across the U.S. since March,
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