Russia has banned poultry imports from Britain following an avian influenza outbreak there, the country's animal and plant health watchdog agency said on Monday.

The ban, effective Tuesday, applies to live chickens, incubator eggs, poultry, all types of poultry products without thermal treatment, fodder and used poultry farm equipment, the Federal Veterinarian and Phytosanitary Control Service said, quoted by the Interfax news agency.

The European Commission confirmed on Saturday that the avian flu which killed 2,600 turkeys at a Suffolk farm in eastern England was the H5N1 virus.

It was the first time the deadly H5N1 strain was found on a British farm.

Source: Xinhua