Brazil's Santa Catarina state said it has ruled out an outbreak of bird flu in a commercial chicken farm while the federal government was keeping it on a list of suspected cases pending further tests.

Brazil, one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of poultry, has confirmed the country’s first bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm.

Brazil supplied more than 70 percent of Japan's poultry imports throughout the fiscal year 2024, which ended in March. Data from Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries recorded that around 429,000 metric tons of Brazilian chicken were shipped to the Land of the Rising Sun during the period.