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Montevideo, October 18th 2025 - 05:57 UTC

Tag: Avian flu

  • Monday, August 25th 2025 - 21:14 UTC

    Chile halts poultry imports from Argentina due to avian flu

    This decision follows the detection at a facility in Los Toldos, Buenos Aires Province

    Chile's Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) has ordered the temporary suspension of chicken imports from Argentina due to an outbreak of “highly pathogenic avian influenza” (HPAI) at a commercial poultry facility in the neighboring country.

  • Wednesday, August 20th 2025 - 22:06 UTC

    Argentina partially halts poultry exports due to avian flu

    Argentina now needs 28 days with no further detections to fully resume exports

    Argentina's National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa) temporarily suspended poultry exports on Wednesday to countries with which it has a disease-free health agreement following a confirmed case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5.

  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 19:37 UTC

    Brazil maneuvering to resume chicken exports to Europe

    Brazil reportedly stopped exporting about 123,000 tons of chicken due to the avian flu detection

    Brazil's Agriculture Minister Carlos Fávaro held a videoconference with EU Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, Olivér Várhelyi, this week to discuss lifting restrictions on the Brazilian chicken meat exports imposed after an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) at a commercial farm in Montenegro, Río Grande do Sul, in May.

  • Wednesday, May 28th 2025 - 10:51 UTC

    Bird flu outbreak in Río Grande do Sul contained, says Brazilian minister

    “If this outbreak in Montenegro had escaped to other regions of the country, we would have had other cases of mortality,” Fávaro argued

    Brazil's Agriculture Minister, Carlos Fávaro, announced Tuesday during a public hearing at the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Agrarian Reform that the bird flu outbreak in Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, has been successfully contained. The country's health system quickly implemented measures, including inspections of 540 nearby rural establishments and setting up sanitary barriers.

  • Tuesday, May 20th 2025 - 10:38 UTC

    Other countries stop buying chicken meat from Brazil

    “It is temporary, until the reality of the problem in Brazil is known,” explained Virginia Russi from the Uruguayan Agriculture and Livestock Ministry

    Mexico, Chile, and Uruguay have joined China, the European Union, and Argentina in temporarily suspending chicken imports from Brazil due to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) detected on a commercial farm in Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s third-largest chicken-producing state.

  • Monday, May 19th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Uruguay to assess avian flu outbreak for possible additional precautions

    Some other measures will be reported on Monday, Carámbula announced

    Uruguayan authorities will be convening Monday to decide which steps to take in the face of an avian flu outbreak in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul. Montevideo has already issued an alert, urging producers to strengthen biosecurity measures.

  • Saturday, May 17th 2025 - 04:59 UTC

    Paraguay on alert over avian flu outbreak in neighboring Brazil

    The Senacsa adopted this measure while awaiting clearance to start beef exports to the Philippines

    Paraguay's National Service of Animal Quality and Health (Senacsa) issued Friday a sanitary alert, urging officials, producers, and citizens to report sick or dead birds and avoid handling them to prevent disease spread. The measure was adopted after Brazil confirmed its first outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in a commercial poultry farm in Rio Grande do Sul.

  • Wednesday, February 19th 2025 - 08:42 UTC

    Uruguay on avian flu alert after detection in Argentina

    The outbreak is limited to Tres Isletas, in the Argentine province of Chaco

    Uruguay's Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP) declared a state of health alert due to an outbreak of avian influenza in Tres Isletas, in the Argentine province of Chaco, it was reported Tuesday in Montevideo. The measure seeks to protect public health and national poultry production as the malady poses risks to biodiversity, the poultry sector, and public health. It can cause sudden bird mortality, respiratory and neurological symptoms, hemorrhages, and diarrhea, it was also explained.

  • Friday, November 29th 2024 - 08:22 UTC

    US CDC calls for more testing of dairy workers given the spread of avian flu

    Blood tests for 115 farmworkers in Michigan and Colorado showed eight workers — or 7% — had antibodies indicating previous infection with Type A H5N1 virus

    United States health officials have called for more testing of employees on farms with bird flu after a new study showed that some dairy workers had signs of infection, even when they didn’t report feeling sick.

  • Monday, June 10th 2024 - 07:06 UTC

    Cattle in eleven US states with outbreaks of avian flu H5N1

    Samples were collected and sent to the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, which confirmed the presence of the virus in cows

    With the outbreak of Avian flu H5N1 in Minnesota, Midwest state bordering Canada, the number of infected cattle in the United States confirmed has reached over eighty animals across some eleven states. Besides Minnesota the other states with infected cattle include, South Dakota, New Mexico, Michigan, Iowa, Idaho, Ohio, Colorado and North Carolina.

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