Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Turkeys culled after avian flu outbreak



Even though it was a low-pathogenic strain, officials have culled a 39,000-bird flock of turkeys in Jasper County, Missouri.

Farms within a 10-kilometre radius have been tested and found clear of the virus.

This strain is H5N1 which is different from the one that devastated the United States egg and turkey industries last year.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued an advisory to the Canadian poultry industry to step up biosecurity because ducks and geese are migrating north and could, as they did last year, drop deadly strains of avian influenza in their poop.