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

By GFM Network News, Julie Steenhuysen, Tom Polansek 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

Livestock, Markets

CFIA declares B.C. avian flu-free

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff 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,

News, Poultry

Wild birds have higher resistance to flu virus

With bird flu ravaging barns in the U.S. and knocking at Canada’s door,  it might be time to reconsider how poultry are raised

By Shannon VanRaes June 1, 2015

For years, poultry producers have been breeding something in their barns other than birds. Avian influenza. Long present in wild bird populations, the low-pathogen version of the virus has entered barns, remaining there until a series of mutations turned into something else — something deadly. “We have been playing with fire,” said Earl Brown, a

Livestock

Last of avian flu quarantines lifted in B.C.

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff 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

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock

Hens near Chilliwack catch H5N1 avian flu

By Dave Bedard, 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

Livestock

Bird flu outbreak in India caused by strain humans can contract

By GFM Network News, Reuters November 27, 2014

Paris | Reuters — A bird flu virus found in India this week is the H5N1 strain that can be transmitted to humans, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said Thursday. However, the organization said it was not concerned about the situation, because India had faced outbreaks of the virus before. No human case

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Tag Archives H5N1

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

CFIA declares B.C. avian flu-free

Wild birds have higher resistance to flu virus

Last of avian flu quarantines lifted in B.C.

Hens near Chilliwack catch H5N1 avian flu

Bird flu outbreak in India caused by strain humans can contract

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