Taiwan bans poultry from West Virginia

The countries will not accept any poultry or poultry products from the state. Also, Hong Kong will not accept such imports from Pendleton County, where the avian flu was found, said Matt Herrick, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service.

“They are temporary measures based on international guidelines,” Herrick said Thursday.

Timeframes for resuming poultry imports will depend on each country’s standards. For example, Cuba allows such imports to resume 21 days after the disease is detected, providing the poultry farm is sterilized to its standards, Herrick said.

“The remaining countries ... it’s a case-by-case basis,” he said.

State agriculture officials said the strain of the disease found in Pendleton County turkeys is not harmful to humans. But 25,000 turkeys at the farm were destroyed this week as a precaution to prevent the virus from mutating and spreading.

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