H5N1 News: Canadian Duck Tests Negative for Lethal Strain
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
A duck at a British Columbia poultry farm has tested positive for avian flu virus, but not the form circulating in Southeast Asia that has been blamed for more than 60 deaths, Canadian officials said.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Sunday the infection at the duck and goose farm in Chilliwack, just outside of Vancouver, is different, but that 60,000 birds on the farm will still be killed as a precaution.
Veterinarian Cornelius Kiley said the H5 virus found in a commercial duck is a low pathogenic North American strain, which means it doesn’t kill poultry.
posted by Fergie @ 11/21/2005 11:39:00 AM
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