British Columbia has two more avian influenza cases

The two British Columbia municipalities that have been hardest hit by the current highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak – Abbotsford and Chilliwack – each have had one new case confirmed within the past several days.

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The two British Columbia municipalities that have been hardest hit by the current highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak – Abbotsford and Chilliwack – each have had one new case confirmed within the past several days.

According to information on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) website, a new case was confirmed in Abbotsford on January 13, while a new case was confirmed in Chilliwack on January 14.

Both cases were in commercial poultry flocks, but CFIA did not offer further details on the type of poultry operations involved, or how many birds were in these flocks.

The Abbotsford case if the first for the municipality in 2023, but there were 43 cases of HPAI in Abbotsford in 2022. Meanwhile, Chilliwack has now had three cases in 2023 to bring its 2022-23 total to 20 cases.

Since HPAI was confirmed in Canada’s first commercial poultry flock in Nova Scotia in February 2022, the country has had 126 cases of HPAI in commercial poultry flocks. British Columbia has had by far the most with 76, doubling the amount of cases in Alberta, which with 38 cases is the province with the second most cases.

While only British Columbia has had any confirmed cases in 2023, the other provinces, in addition to British Columbia and Alberta, to report cases in commercial poultry since the beginning of the outbreak include: Ontario (30), Manitoba (17), Quebec (16), Saskatchewan (16), and Nova Scotia (2).

To learn more about HPAI cases in commercial poultry flocks in the United States and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com. 

Read our ongoing coverage of the global avian influenza outbreak.
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