No indication Canada bird flu outbreak has spread

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - There is no indication an outbreak of bird flu in Canada has spread beyond the turkey farm near Vancouver where the disease was discovered last week but testing continues, officials said on Monday.

Crews began killing the 60,000 turkeys at the farm in Abbotsford, British Columbia that were ordered destroyed after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed several of the birds had contracted the virus.

Officials say the disease was H5 avian influenza but were awaiting test results to determine the exact virus strain and it pathogenicity, a measure of how severe the illness is to birds. Initial tests indicate it was a less severe strain.

There were no human illnesses associated with the outbreak and Canadian officials said the health threat to people in this case was very low.

The H5N1 strain of the virus can infect people and is responsible for 252 human deaths since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.


http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCATRE50O00220090127

[thunder rising]

1. Fear Fear Fear !!! 252 human deaths since 2003 ... you might give up driving for sure.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

2. Interestingly this strain was not highly pathogenic.

[Oregone]

3. Canada is breeding bird flu and training Kamikaze geese.

This northern aggression undoubtedly proves they have their eye on annexing North Dakota.