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Vietnam halts poultry imports from US over bird flu fears

Vietnam halts poultry imports from US over bird flu fears

Friday, May 08, 2015, 16:50 GMT+7

The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has temporarily suspended poultry imports from the U.S., where a bird flu outbreak has now spread to 14 states.

The ban, which covers live poultry, frozen and processed poultry meat and eggs, took effect on May 1, Nguyen Xuan Binh, director of the ministry’s Animal Health Agency Zone VI, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Wednesday.

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