From Canadian Press staff
Published April 20, 2022, 12:43 p.m.
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A Quebec duck operation that found bird flu at three of its facilities says it must slaughter 150,000 birds and lay off nearly 300 employees.
Angela Anderson of Brome Lake Ducks says it will probably take six to 12 months and probably several million dollars to fully recover.
She said in an interview today that one of the facilities affected by the H5N1 flu contained the company’s entire breeding stock, including 400,000 Peking duck eggs, which had been ordered to be destroyed.
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Once the birds in the pipeline in unaffected facilities are processed, she says the company will have to cut staff because no more ducks will enter.
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Jean-Pierre Vailancourt, a veterinarian at the University of Montreal, says the highly pathogenic bird flu H5N1 is the most dangerous strain farmers in Quebec have ever encountered.
He said that while it did not pose a major risk to humans, it was so contagious that all animals on an infected farm had to be destroyed on the spot to stop it from spreading.
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