{"id":22143,"date":"2026-02-23T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22143\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:20:08","slug":"bird-flu-outbreaks-in-parts-of-japan-denmark-trigger-hong-kong-poultry-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22143\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu outbreaks in parts of Japan, Denmark trigger Hong Kong poultry bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong authorities have banned poultry meat and products from parts of Japan and Denmark following reports of outbreaks of highly pathogenic strains of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/bird-flu-viruses-H5N1-H3N8?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bird flu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Centre for Food Safety said on Monday that imports of poultry products, including eggs, from Holbaek municipality in Denmark and Japan\u2019s Iwate prefecture had been suspended with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Traders had been instructed to suspend the imports to protect public health, it said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The precautionary move follows notifications from the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) and Japan\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries confirming outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 and H5 strains of avian influenza respectively.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong imported 2,390 tonnes of frozen poultry meat and nearly 298 million eggs from Japan last year, according to the Census and Statistics Department.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The city imported about 450 tonnes of frozen poultry meat and 210,000 eggs from Denmark last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong authorities have banned poultry meat and products from parts of Japan and Denmark following reports of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14912,14905,14911,27,26,14914,14907,14906,14908,5340,14909,3160,14913,14910,14915],"class_list":{"0":"post-22143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-avian-influenza","9":"tag-bird-flu","10":"tag-centre-for-food-safety","11":"tag-danmark","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-forestry-and-fisheries","14":"tag-h5","15":"tag-h5n1","16":"tag-holbaek","17":"tag-hong-kong","18":"tag-iwate","19":"tag-japan","20":"tag-ministry-of-agriculture","21":"tag-poultry","22":"tag-world-organisation-for-animal-health"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}