Just days after highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was confirmed in wild birds in Manitoba, there was the first case of HPAI in poultry in the province.
In addition, two new cases have been reported in Saskatchewan and four more in Alberta.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced that on April 23, the HPAI was found in a flock of poultry in the rural municipality of Whitmouth, Manitoba.
In Saskatchewan, the presence of HPAI in a poultry flock in rural Morse was reported on April 22, and two days later it was detected in rural Carmichael. Saskatchewan already has five cases of HPAI in poultry, according to the CFIA, but this is the first case in Carmichael.
New cases of HPAI in Alberta have been reported in Wetaskiwin County, Sturgeon, Rocky View County and Camrose. All of these new cases were identified as H5N1 strains. The Wetaskiwin and Sturgeon cases were confirmed on April 21, while the Rocky View County and Camrose County cases were confirmed on April 23 and April 24, respectively. This is the second case in Wetaskiwin County and the second case in Camrose County, while this is the first case in the other two counties.
The CFIA described the Sturgeon County case as a “small herd.”
All Canadian provinces have had confirmed cases of HPAI, although Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island have not had confirmed cases of commercial poultry.
The virus has also been found in commercial poultry in many U.S. states, including Minnesota, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
To learn more about HPAI cases in North American poultry flocks, see the WATTPoultry.com interactive map.
Read our current coverage of the global bird flu epidemic.
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