Two more outbreaks of avian flu confirmed on farms in B.C. and Alberta

The Canadian Meals Inspection Company has confirmed two extra outbreaks of avian influenza in small flocks – one in southern British Columbia and the opposite in southeastern Alberta.

A press release from the company says the H5N1 pressure of extremely pathogenic avian influenza was recognized Saturday within the flock in Cypress County, Alta., and on Sunday amongst birds within the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen in B.C.

The B.C. case got here sooner or later after 4,000 turkeys on a Fraser Valley farm had been as a consequence of be euthanized as avian flu was verified final week on two business poultry farms in B.C.’s poultry producing hub of Abbotsford.

Information from the meals inspection company reveals the outbreak is the twelfth recorded in B.C. because the province’s first case on April 13.

The an infection in Cypress County, close to Medication Hat, is the twenty ninth in Alberta however the first in additional than every week.

The company warns that the so-called chook flu is spreading globally and outbreaks have been confirmed in each province besides Prince Edward Island.

Nonetheless, solely B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec have recorded new circumstances in Might.

Poultry house owners are being suggested to make use of strict an infection management measures and to take precautions to maintain their flocks separate, safe and unable to combine with wild birds, that are believed to be carrying the virus.

A wildlife centre in central Alberta mentioned final week that it was caring for 4 younger foxes that doubtless picked up avian flu after consuming carcasses of birds that died of the sickness, and there was concern extra scavengers might turn out to be unwell.

The meals inspection company mentioned no human circumstances of avian flu have been detected.

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