Brazilian Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro on Friday welcomed the opportunity to debate vaccination of poultry against bird flu following the country's first confirmed outbreak on a commercial chicken breeding farm last month.

Brazil said Wednesday it had contained an outbreak of avian flu that had forced it to suspend chicken meat exports to China and 20 other countries

Brazil's Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said on Wednesday there were strong indications that the world's biggest chicken exporter had efficiently contained a bird flu outbreak which was reported on a commercial chicken farm in mid-May,