EU Bans Feather Imports from Six States near Turkey
Date: 10-Jan-06
Country: BELGIUM
The countries are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, the European Commission said in a statement.
Turkey has now reported 12 people as suffering from bird flu, and three deaths in the east of the country of youngsters who almost certainly caught the virus directly from chickens.
The EU already bans imports of live birds and poultry products, including feathers, from Turkey.