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Myanmar bans poultry imports from India due to bird flu
August 4, 2007: (Times of India) YANGON: Military-ruled Myanmar has banned poultry imports from India following an outbreak of bird flu last month in the neighbouring country, state media said on Saturday.
The ban was effective Saturday, the Mirror newspaper
said, without giving details on how much poultry Myanmar
imports from India.
Myanmar is under Western economic sanctions over
its human rights abuses, including the house arrest of 62-year-old democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but the junta has close economic and diplomatic ties
with India.
Myanmar on Tuesday detected its
second outbreak of bird flu in less than a month, but so far has not reported
any human cases of avian influenza.
India reported an outbreak of
bird flu among poultry in late July, the first since it declared itself free of
the deadly disease last August.
The World
Health Organisation has so far recorded 319 cases of bird flu in humans
worldwide, 192 of which were fatal.
Experts fear the death toll could rise sharply if the virus were to mutate and become easily transmissible between humans.