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Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises pandemic risk

By GFM Network News, Kate Kelland 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

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Last avian flu-related block on U.S. poultry lifted

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 12, 2016

The last of Canada’s temporary avian flu-related rules against cross-border travellers bringing in poultry and/or eggs from the U.S. has been lifted. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, live birds, raw poultry, eggs and certain other raw or less-than-cooked poultry products originating in Indiana may again be brought into Canada. Lifted effective June 27,

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Poultry at risk for avian flu during migration

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 29, 2016

Cases of avian flu in commercial poultry in the U.S. and Mexico earlier this year are believed to have come from wild birds, which are now migrating north for the season, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warned Friday. Avian influenza spreads when wild birds come into contact with commercial/small flocks, the agency said, urging producers

Two more states’ eggs, poultry allowed into Canada

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 31, 2016

Cross-border travellers may again bring raw poultry meat, eggs and live birds into Canada from North Dakota and Missouri. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency last week shortened its list of U.S. states under avian influenza-related restrictions to just one. Indiana remains under limits imposed in January after highly pathogenic (“high-path”) H7N8 avian flu turned up at

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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

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Canada blocks poultry, eggs from Indiana

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 18, 2016

Cross-border travellers coming into Canada from the U.S. are now warned against bringing in raw poultry and eggs from Indiana, the site of the country’s latest cases of avian flu. Travellers entering Canada from the U.S. may not bring in uncooked poultry products, live birds and/or eggs from Indiana, North Dakota or Missouri, the Canadian

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U.S. finds first avian flu in poultry since June

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek January 15, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– An Indiana turkey flock has been infected with a deadly type of bird flu in the first new case of the disease in U.S. poultry since June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday. The flock in Dubois County, Indiana, was infected with a highly pathogenic (“high-path”) strain of H7N8,

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Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises pandemic risk

Last avian flu-related block on U.S. poultry lifted

Poultry at risk for avian flu during migration

Two more states’ eggs, poultry allowed into Canada

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

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from Indiana

U.S. finds first avian flu in poultry since June

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