19 October 2026
On October 18, 2026, Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture confirmed an outbreak of Newcastle disease at a commercial turkey farm in the state of Santa Catarina. Santa catarina is the second largest national producer and allocates about 63% of its volume to the foreign market. In 2025, Santa Catarina's poultry industry exported 1.2 million tons, generating US$ 2.45 billion - a figure corresponding to a quarter of the revenue from Brazilian chicken meat exports.
Following the announcement, international trade partners, led by Mexico, began imposing temporary import restrictions on Brazilian poultry, poultry products, and hatching eggs pending an assessment of the outbreak's scope.
Brazil’s previous outbreak of the virus occurred in 2024 within a commercial broiler flock in Rio Grande do Sul.
