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THE PHILIPPINES has temporarily banned poultry imports from the Russian Federation after that country reported the world’s first case of human transmission of H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu).

In a memorandum order signed on Feb. 26, Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar suspended imports from Russia of domestic and wild birds and their products, including poultry meat, day-old chicks, eggs, and semen.https://73f8b2bd5098cfa08dc5a9ec3998c2d9.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html

He also suspended the processing, evaluation, and issuance of sanitary and phytosanitary import clearances for such commodities from Russia.

Reuters reported on Feb. 20 that Russia’s consumer health regulator Rospotrebnadzor announced the world’s first case of H5N8 passed on from birds to humans.Advertisement

According to Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, seven workers at a poultry plant in Astrakhan were infected with H5N8 during an outbreak at the plant in December, but added…