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A cat died of bird flu late last month in southeastern Saskatchewan and now the province is reminding owners how to keep their pets safe this spring. On the morning of April 20, the pet cat was said to be acting normally. Then, symptoms of the H5N1 strain of avian …
Read More »Why Canada’s food inspection agency won’t do interviews as avian flu outbreak in Ontario grows
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. As the number of birds culled in an avian flu outbreak on turkey farms near Strathroy, Ont., approaches 100,000, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says it …
Read More »Louisiana reports 1st U.S. human death related to H5N1 avian flu
The Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday that a U.S. patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died, the country’s first death from an outbreak of the virus that has sickened dozens of people and millions of poultry and cattle. Nearly 70 people in the U.S. have contracted bird flu …
Read More »Avian flu may be killing Quebec harbour seals, scientists say
Months after avian flu was first detected in Quebec’s birds, it’s now affecting a new population: seals. Quebec scientists say they’ve found traces of avian flu in dead harbour seals that are washing ashore in the St. Lawrence estuary, a 250-kilometre long ecosystem that runs from just north of Quebec …
Read More »Hundreds of snow geese expected to have been killed by avian flu in Saskatchewan
Jen Gibson is a self-proclaimed bird geek who always looks forward to seeing snow geese in the spring. But this year when the birds passed by her property near Grand Coulee, about 20 km west of Regina, she noticed that something was wrong. “I have never seen this number of dead birds,” …
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