The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is looking into some sickly turkeys at a 50,000-strong bird farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley. Early testing suggests H5-type avian influenza. Several nearby farms have been placed under quarantine.
H5N1 influenza, a highly pathological subtype, killed nearly 250 people in Asia, Africa and Europe in ‘04 and ‘05 and was responsible for the death or destruction of tens of millions of birds.
It will be a few days until it is determined whether this H5 virus is of high or low pathogenicity.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is having a busy start to the new year.
Photo courtesy of Max Westby under CC license.
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I saw footage of the facility on CTV this evening.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that diseases spread pretty easily among animals that are shoved together in a sawdust covered warehouse.