Canada: No bans expected from Newfoundland avian flu outbreak

Published 2021년 12월 22일

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A Canadian exhibition farm in Newfoundland has seen an outbreak of the highly-pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, marking the first such outbreak in Canada since 2015. The strain, aligned with the Eurasian lineage that has been prevalent in Europe and Asia this year, resulted in the death of 360 birds and the culling of 59 more. Despite this, international animal health agencies do not anticipate import bans on Canadian poultry due to the outbreak, as the affected farm is not a commercial poultry facility. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is working with provincial and federal officials to manage the situation, having confirmed the outbreak on December 16 following tests at two diagnostic labs.

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Neither federal nor international animal health officials expect to see import bans imposed on Canadian poultry coming out of an avian flu outbreak at a farm on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Wednesday reported a confirmed outbreak of a highly-pathogenic (‘high-path’) strain of H5N1 avian influenza at an exhibition farm in the province’s southeast. It marks Canada’s first high-path outbreak since 2015. The exhibition farm houses multiple species of birds and other animals and does not produce birds for sale, CFIA said. Thus, it’s considered “non-poultry” by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Ontario’s Feather Board Command Centre, an industry agency that tracks both domestic and international bird disease outbreaks, said Wednesday the Newfoundland farm’s stock had included chickens, turkeys, emus, geese, ducks, guinea fowl and peafowl. According to the report filed with the OIE, the flu strain killed 360 birds on the farm and ...

Source: Ag Canada