The Brazilian Government announced on Tuesday, 24 June, that 17 countries have already lifted their restrictions on Brazilian poultry and resumed trade operations following the alarm triggered by an avian influenza case detected last month at a commercial farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
That single case was recorded on 16 May 2025, and last week, once the mandatory quarantine and measures set out in international protocols had been completed without any new cases being reported, the Ministry of Agriculture declared the country once again “free of avian influenza”.
Brazil is the world’s largest poultry exporter, and the avian influenza case led approximately 65 countries to impose various restrictions.
Those measures, according to a statement released on Tuesday, 24 June, by the Ministry of Agriculture, have begun to be lifted progressively, with 17 countries already having resumed imports of Brazilian poultry.
According to the statement, these are: Algeria, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, El Salvador, Iraq, Japan, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Montenegro, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Sri Lanka, Vanuatu and Vietnam.
Among the countries and blocs that still maintain a complete suspension of their purchases of Brazilian poultry are the European Union (EU) and China, two of the principal destinations for this product.
The Ministry of Agriculture also confirmed that around thirty countries have yet to lift restrictive measures that are limited solely to the state of Rio Grande do Sul or to the municipality of Montenegro, where the avian influenza case was detected.
For further information:
-. Brazilian poultry industry on NeXusAvicultura
-. Avian Influenza on NeXusAvicultura
-. Current status of avian influenza vaccination in poultry, and in humans, on NeXusAvicultura