Canada reports first HPAI case in nearly a month

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported the country’s first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in nearly a month.

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported the country’s first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in nearly a month.

However, the most recent case did not involve a commercial poultry operation.

CFIA reported that a HPAI was confirmed in a backyard poultry flock in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. The number of birds affected was not released.

Prior to this, the last cases of HPAI were confirmed on February 8, in which three commercial poultry flocks in Quebec were affected. Two of those cases were in the Beauharnois-Salaberry Regional County Municipality and the other was in the Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality. On day prior to that was Nova Scotia’s most recent case, also involving a non-commercial operation.

The last case of HPAI in a commercial poultry operation in Nova Scotia was on February 11, 2022. While Nova Scotia was the first province to have a commercial poultry operation affected by HPAI during thee 2022-23 outbreak, it has only had two cases in commercial poultry.

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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