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No trade bans expected from Nova Scotia bird flu findings

High-path H5N1 a 'non-poultry detection'

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 4, 2022

A new outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a backyard flock in central Nova Scotia isn’t expected to affect international trade in Canada’s feather sectors. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Tuesday confirmed a high-path H5N1 strain affecting birds on the property, describing it Thursday as a “non-poultry detection” among animals not produced […] Read more

File photo of a great black-backed gull standing on a fortress wall at the port city of Saint-Malo in northern France. (Sjo/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Second high-path avian flu case appears in Newfoundland

Case involves non-commercial 'small flock' farm in same area

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 13, 2022

A new appearance of highly pathogenic avian flu in birds at another farm on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula isn’t expected to affect Canada’s status as free of avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported Tuesday it had confirmed ‘high-path’ H5N1 avian influenza (AI) on Sunday in birds at an “additional” farm in the region. It […] Read more

A northern gannet colony at the Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula. (Benedek/E+/Getty Images)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

No bans expected from Newfoundland avian flu outbreak

High-path H5N1 kills 360 birds on 'non-poultry' farm

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News December 23, 2021

Neither federal nor international animal health officials expect to see import bans imposed on Canadian poultry coming out of an avian flu outbreak at a farm on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Wednesday reported a confirmed outbreak of a highly-pathogenic (‘high-path’) strain of H5N1 avian influenza at an exhibition farm in […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

WHO says bird flu outbreaks raise alarm

By GFM Network News March 1, 2017

London | Reuters — The risk of sustained human-to-human transmission of H7N9 avian flu in China is low, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, but a surge in human cases there is worrying and requires constant monitoring. Outbreaks of H5 bird flu strains in poultry and wild birds across Europe, Africa and Asia are […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises pandemic risk

By GFM Network News January 26, 2017

London | Reuters — The global spread of bird flu and the number of viral strains currently circulating and causing infections have reached unprecedented levels, raising the risk of a potential human outbreak, according to disease experts. Multiple outbreaks have been reported in poultry farms and wild flocks across Europe, Africa and Asia in the […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. kills 39,000 turkeys in low-path bird flu outbreak

By GFM Network News May 3, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. authorities destroyed 39,000 turkeys in Missouri due to an outbreak of a mild form of avian flu, the World Organization for Animal Health said on Tuesday, as officials remained on alert for new cases. State authorities also have begun a quarantine and taken surveillance measures around the farm in Jasper […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. deploys new bird flu plan to protect humans, poultry

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News January 19, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farm and health officials are racing to assess the threat that a type of bird flu never before seen in the country poses to humans and poultry, employing emergency plans drawn up in the wake of a devastating outbreak in birds last year. The federal government sprang into action on […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

CFIA declares B.C. avian flu-free

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 9, 2015

With three months’ distance from the cleanup at the last of the province’s infected poultry barns, the federal government has declared British Columbia free of highly pathogenic avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Monday it had notified the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) that B.C. is considered free of notifiable avian influenza, […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Last of avian flu quarantines lifted in B.C.

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 27, 2015

The quarantine has been lifted at the last of the 13 farms in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley known to have been infected with highly-pathogenic avian flu. The farm, a 53,000-bird table egg layer operation at Langley, B.C., was confirmed Dec. 13 with high-path H5N2 avian flu. At the end of a 21-day waiting period following […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Hens near Chilliwack catch H5N1 avian flu

By GFM Network News February 7, 2015

About 95 layer hens on a “non-commercial” farm near Chilliwack are the Fraser Valley’s latest cases of avian influenza, but not of the same strain seen at 12 other farms in December. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Saturday announced a quarantine on the Chilliwack farm after confirming, effective Feb. 2, that table egg-laying birds […] Read more

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No trade bans expected from Nova Scotia bird flu findings

Second high-path avian flu case appears in Newfoundland

No bans expected from Newfoundland avian flu outbreak

WHO says bird flu outbreaks raise alarm

Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises pandemic risk

U.S. kills 39,000 turkeys in low-path bird flu outbreak

U.S. deploys new bird flu plan to protect humans, poultry

CFIA declares B.C. avian flu-free

Last of avian flu quarantines lifted in B.C.

Hens near Chilliwack catch H5N1 avian flu

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