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 Baghdad last month restricted poultry imports from France, where an
outbreak of avian flu has been reported.
"The import of poultry and birds of all kinds ... as well as both
types of eggs (table and hatching), feathers and all products that
use poultry or their products ... is prohibited," a government
statement said.
The agriculture ministry could not be contacted for immediate
comment, but a ministry spokesman previously said that the ban on
French poultry was because of avian flu.
The affected exporters are Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Bhutan, China,
Egypt, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan,
Laos, Libya, Myanmar, Mexico, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea,
Palestine, South Africa, South Korea and Vietnam.
Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu first infected humans in 1997 during
a poultry outbreak in Hong Kong. Since its re-emergence in 2003 and
2004, H5N1 has spread from Asia to Europe and Africa, causing
millions of poultry infections, several hundred human cases and many
human deaths.
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(Reporting by Saif Hameed; Editing by David Goodman)
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