H5N1 News: Bird Flu Strain Found on Canadian Farm
As many as 65,000 birds at a poultry farm in the Fraser River Valley of British Columbia are to be slaughtered after a strain of bird flu was discovered in a duck there, according to reports published Sunday quoting Canadian health officials and the owner of the farm.
“This morning test results ... confirmed that the H5 virus found in a domestic duck in British Columbia is the low pathogenic, North American strain,” Cornelius Kiley, a veterinarian with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, said in a briefing on Sunday. “This confirmation means that we are looking at a virus capable of causing only mild disease, if any at all.
“It also means that we are not dealing with the virus current in Asia and Europe,” Kiley said. “This particular subtype is unique to this part of the world and we have previously seen it throughout North America.”
posted by Fergie @ 11/20/2005 12:54:00 PM
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