June 19, 2006

Authorities in Canada quarantines second farm as bird flu precaution

A second farm in Canada's Prince Edward Island has been placed under quarantine after bird flu of H5 strain was found in goose in a farm in that province, authorities said on Sunday (Jun 18). 

Jim Clark, national manager of the bird flu group of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), said there were no signs of bird flu on the farm so far.

The farm was put under quarantine as there had been movement of people and perhaps poultry between it and the farm where the case of bird flu was discovered, Clark said.

Samples have been sent to the CFIA laboratory in Winnipeg in central Canada to determine whether the virus found in the dead goose was the deadly H5N1 strain.