THE CANADIAN PRESS
Several poultry farms in B.C.'s Fraser Valley are under quarantine as officials investigate a possible outbreak of avian influenza.
B.C. Poultry Association spokesman Calvin Bruekelman says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency imposed the quarantine on farms within a three-kilometre radius of one turkey producer in Abbotsford, B.C. He says tests are underway after antibodies for avian flu were found in some 12-week-old turkeys at E&H Farms.
The affected farm has 50,000 turkeys and Bruekelman says further blood work from the flock is being processed at the CFIA lab in Winnipeg, with results expected in the next 24 hours.
If confirmed, this would not be the first outbreak of avian flu among B.C. poultry producers. Seventeen million birds were slaughtered in the Fraser Valley in February of 2004 following an outbreak of the H7N3 version of the disease, a different strain from deadly H5N1 version linked to deaths and illnesses in Southeast Asia, China, Russia and Europe.
Several poultry farms in B.C.'s Fraser Valley are under quarantine as officials investigate a possible outbreak of avian influenza.
B.C. Poultry Association spokesman Calvin Bruekelman says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency imposed the quarantine on farms within a three-kilometre radius of one turkey producer in Abbotsford, B.C. He says tests are underway after antibodies for avian flu were found in some 12-week-old turkeys at E&H Farms.
The affected farm has 50,000 turkeys and Bruekelman says further blood work from the flock is being processed at the CFIA lab in Winnipeg, with results expected in the next 24 hours.
If confirmed, this would not be the first outbreak of avian flu among B.C. poultry producers. Seventeen million birds were slaughtered in the Fraser Valley in February of 2004 following an outbreak of the H7N3 version of the disease, a different strain from deadly H5N1 version linked to deaths and illnesses in Southeast Asia, China, Russia and Europe.
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