By Crawford Kilian January 23, 2009 08:55 am
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A still-unidentified strain of bird flu has been found on an Abbotsford turkey farm. It’s not the first time, but it could be the most serious outbreak since the mass culling of 17 million Fraser Valley birds in 2004.
A spokesperson for the industry, speaking on CBC radio’s Early Edition, said the virus is probably a low-pathogenic strain.
The 2004 avian flu outbreak was H7N3, a strain that is rarely dangerous to humans.
Only low-path H5N1 has ever been identified in North America. The high-pathogenic strain has devastated Asian, African and European poultry industries since 2003, and infecting 399 humans. According to the World Health Organization, 251 of those cases have been fatal.
A report by CTV.ca provides a few early details about the Abbotsford outbreak.
Crawford Kilian, a contributing editor of The Tyee, blogs about avian flu at H5N1.
1 comment:
Bird flu has been affecting lots of places recently. Asia has witnesses some very chronic cases. High time some serious measures are taken to prevent it...
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