Seoul | Reuters –– South Korea will disinfect farms around the country over the new year and limit the transport of animals, stepping up its effort to contain an outbreak […] Read more
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S. Korea to disinfect farms as FMD, bird flu spread
CFIA caught up on Fraser Valley bird depopulations
Birds at the 11 commercial poultry farms and one other property hit so far this month by H5N2 avian influenza in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley have been euthanized. The Canadian […] Read more
B.C. egg farm joins turkey, broiler farms on quarantine list
A 53,000-bird table egg layer operation in the greater Vancouver area is the 10th farm in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland to be confirmed with avian influenza since the beginning of […] Read more
Avian flu arrives on more B.C. poultry farms
Federal officials monitoring avian flu outbreaks in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley aren’t surprised to have confirmed another three, maybe four, infected properties. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in […] Read more
Poultry, captive bird movements now limited in southern B.C.
Movements of birds, poultry products and poultry farm equipment are under new restrictions in the area where five poultry farms in British Columbia have been quarantined with avian flu. The […] Read more
U.S. suspends some B.C. poultry imports over avian flu
Chicago | Reuters –– The U.S. has suspended imports of live and raw poultry from British Columbia due to an outbreak of bird flu virus in the province’s Fraser Valley, […] Read more
Another Abbotsford poultry farm quarantined
A fifth poultry farm in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, this time a turkey farm near Abbotsford, is under federal quarantine with an H5 strain of avian influenza. The Canadian Food Inspection […] Read more
H5N2-infected broilers being destroyed in B.C.
Flock depopulation is underway on a broiler breeder farm infected with a severe strain of H5N2 avian flu at Chilliwack, B.C. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Friday it’s begun […] Read more
Avian flu outbreak in B.C. is high-path H5N2
Tests have confirmed the avian influenza that’s killed thousands of birds at two British Columbia poultry farms is a “high-path” strain of H5N2. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Thursday […] Read more
Two more B.C. poultry farms quarantined for avian flu
Two Fraser Valley poultry farms — both of which received birds from one of two farms quarantined this week with confirmed cases of H5 avian influenza — are now also […] Read more
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