Kazakhstan bans Russian, Belarusian poultry over salmonella

"The ban took effect from March 28 and covered several Russian and Belarusian poultry exporters," Zhandarbek Bekshin, the chairman of the Agency for consumer rights protection and chief medical officer of Kazakhstan, told Kazinform correspondent. "An excess of water and salmonella, the dangerous bacteria, was found in shipments of Russian and Belarusian poultry to Kazakhstan," he elaborated. NOTE: Salmonella is a type of dangerous bacteria found in both cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals. It causes illnesses such as typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, and food poisoning. Salmonella bacteria can survive for weeks outside a living body, and they are not destroyed by freezing.