The Philippines' Department of Agriculture announced that it is lifting its ban on all poultry and poultry products from the state of Arkansas, while simultaneously banning the same products from Idaho.
Arthur Yap, secretary of the Department of Agriculture, said that the import ban was lifted from Arkansas after the World Organization for Animal Health certified the state as free from bird flu. The ban was originally put in place after a bird flu virus was detected in Washington County last June.
The department placed a temporary ban of imports of domestic and wild birds from Idaho, however, after an occurrence of low-pathogenic avian influenza was found there in game birds that are bred for hunting.
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