Kathy Lang: February 2009 Archives
In late January, the
Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed a turkey farm in British Columbia
tested positive for the H5 strain of avian influenza (CBC News
Story). Over fifty-thousand
birds were destroyed and a quarantine of the 23 poultry farms within a
3-kilometre radius of the infected farm was instated. Although the risk to
human health was estimated at nearly zero in this case, different strains of
avian influenza (e.g., H5N1) have been linked to death and illness in humans in
both Asia and Europe in recent years.
Continue reading Dealing with zoonotics requires a harmonized approach.
