In less than one month, highly infectious avian influenza has caused the deaths of at least 260,000 domestic poultry. The birds were killed directly by the disease or were destroyed as part of containment efforts. The number is expected to rise with Alberta and Ontario being hot spots for the virus. Alberta has been the […] Read more
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Avian flu outbreak spreads to Alberta
The avian influenza outbreak has hit the Prairies after being found in three flocks in Alberta on Wednesday. The discovery comes on the heels of two weeks of spreading across southern Ontario with the East Coast reporting cases earlier this year. The three Alberta flocks — two in Mountain View County and one in Ponoka […] Read more
Avian flu spreads in Ontario
Poultry producers in southern Ontario are facing a spread of avian influenza that has been found on six farms in a little more than a week and has now been detected in wild fowl in Quebec. The latest infections come on top of six farms reporting bird flu cases in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and […] Read more
U.S. poultry farmers tighten avian flu safety
Recent cases rattle U.S. producers, who remember a devastating outbreak in 2015 that killed nearly 50 million birds
CHICAGO, Ill. (Reuters) — American poultry producers are tightening safety measures for their flocks as disease experts warn that wild birds are likely spreading a highly lethal form of avian flu across the country. Indiana reported earlier this month that the highly pathogenic bird flu was found on a commercial turkey farm, leading China, South […] Read more
