The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed the presence of avian flu in a muskie poultry farm.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed on Sunday that a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) had been discovered in Quebec this fall.
Our Earthreports that the infected flock of poultry came from a non-quota commercial farm in the Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot sector, in Montérégie based on data collected from the Quebec Poultry Disease Control Team.
Still according to the newspaper, this would be an area with a high density of poultry farming and a primary control zone would have been installed to minimize the spread to other poultry farms in the region.
First human case
Remember that last week, a teenager from British Columbia was reported by the Public Health Agency of Canada as the country’s first human case of avian flu contamination.
“Genomic sequencing indicates that the virus is similar to the H5N1 avian influenza viruses originating from the ongoing epidemic in poultry in British Columbia,” the government agency then underlined in a press release.
A case of avian flu was also detected in a commercial breeding farm in Saint-André-Avellin, in the MRC of Papineau, in Outaouais, last January.
As of September 1, 2023, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported 948,000 cases of infected birds in Quebec alone.
The World Organization for Animal Health reminds that any farmer who suspects that one of his poultry may be affected must inform the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
The same goes for anyone who finds a sick or dead wild bird.
