B.C. government ‘doing everything’ it can to stop spread of bird flu, minister says
Farmers in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley are facing “intense disease pressure,” with an avian flu outbreak in commercial farms that the agriculture minister says is concerning
The Canadian Press
Lana Popham says, normally, avian flu aligns with bird migration seasons, but the latest infections in farms of the H5N1 virus have been consistent all year.
Seven commercial poultry farms have been quarantined with avian flu since Nov. 16 in Abbotsford and Chilliwack, the same area where 17 million birds were culled in 2004 to prevent the flu’s spread.
“The virus this year is different than we’ve ever seen in the past and it is behaving differently in both wild birds and domestic birds,” said Amanda Brittain, the chief information officer at the B.C. Poultry Association.
“Wild birds are the ones spreading it because farms in the Fraser Valley are close to each other”
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