Avian influenza: Hong Kong bans poultry import from India

3 weeks ago, the UAE too suspended import due to disease spread

Three weeks after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) suspended import of poultry products from India due to an outbreak in a part of Kerala of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI H5N8), Hong Kong has also done so.

The Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda) gave the information in a circular. The outbreak was in Kottayam district of Kerala.
 

The UAE decision was announced on January 4. There is worry of more importing countries doing so.

Citing a notification from the World Organization of Animal Health, an inter-government organisation on coordination, support and promotion of animal disease control,