Avian Flu Detected at Fraser Valley Poultry Farms in Canada

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CLICK HERE - H5 Confirmed In Four Fraser Valley Canada Farms

recombinomics.com - December 5, 2014

. . . The absence of reports of an initial low path outbreak in Fraser Valley in 2014 raises concerns that high path H5N2 is circulating in wild birds.

Although high path H5N2 has never been reported in wild birds or poultry in Canada, such isolates have been reported in Asia, including isolates with a Fujian clade 2.3.4 H5. This H5 has been found in multiple serotypes (H5N1, H5N2, H5N5, H5N6, H5N8), raising concerns that the H5N2 in Fraser Valley is from the Asia lineage.

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