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Bird flu outbreak in BC’s Fraser Valley?

January 23, 2009 by Mike Soron

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 [...]

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