Ontario: H5 avian influenza confirmed on duck farm near St. Catharines
by Press Release from Outbreak News Today on (#1KQCV)
Preliminary testing by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of H5 avian influenza on a duck farm near St. Catharines, Ontario as a low pathogenic subtype. Pathogenicity refers to the severity of the illness caused in birds. Further testing by the CFIA is underway to confirm the precise subtype and strain ["]
