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Costa Rican Chickens Still A
Problem
Cámara Nacional de Avicultores (Canavi)
and the Ministerio de la
Producción are keeping their
fingers crossed waiting for
Guatemala, Honduras and El
Salvador to re-open its borders
to Costa Rican chickens.
The three countries closed its
borders earlier this week to
poultry products from Costa Rica
when a case of "virus
laringotraqueítis infecciosa"
was detected at a chicken farm
in Guácimo, Limón.
Costa Rican officials assure
that this is an isolated case
and that the virus probably was
brought in by humans from
outside the country. The virus
may have come in on clothing or
shoes worn by someone who
travelled outside the country.
The virus caused the death of a
number of chickens.
Costa Rican officials assure
that the virus is not
transmitted between the chickens
and humans and invited officials
from the three countries to
inspect the farm and evaluate
for themselves the situation.
Alejandro Hernández, executive
director of Canavi, said
yesterday that they received the
visits and are now waiting a
decision. Hernández assures that
the foreign health officials are
satsified with Costa Rican
chickens and eggs.
"We are giving proiority to
providing them with test results
and other information they need
to re-open the borders to our
products", said Hernández who
added that the price of poultry
dropped about ¢300 colones in
the last several days following
the news of the virus.
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