China Restricts Poultry Imports In Wake Of Bird Flu

Because of avian influenza outbreaks in Northeast Texas, France, Mexico, and China are restricting imports of poultry meat from these regions. Chinese officials cited confirmations of low-pathogenic H7N1 bird flu in Hopkins County,  H5N3 in France and highly pathogenic H7N3 in parts of  Mexico. China imported 290 thousand tons of poultry meat and 580 million poultry eggs from the United States in 2017.