Brazil concerned bird flu vaccination would raise trade barriers
Brazil does not favour vaccination as a way to control bird flu because it would inevitably lead to trade barriers, one of its senior officials said
Reuters
The world’s largest poultry exporter has confirmed eight cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly called bird flu, in wild birds, including one in the state of Rio de Janeiro on Monday, but not in a commercial flock.
“Currently Brazil is free from HPAI. If our epidemiological status shifts and we eventually decide to vaccinate … we have a strong feeling that we would be submitted to some trade barriers,” Brazil’s delegate Eduardo Cunha told the general session of the World Organisation for Animal Health in Paris.
“The severity of the current outbreak has led some governments to reconsider vaccinating poultry, but others remain reluctant mainly because of the trade curbs this would entail”
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