A second farm in Canada's Prince Edward Island has been placed under
quarantine after bird flu of H5 strain was found in goose in a farm in that
province, authorities said on Sunday.
Jim Clark, national manager of the avian influenza working group of the
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, said in Ottawa they had not discovered any
signs of bird flu on the farm under quarantine.
However, the CFIA decided to quarantine it as a precautionary measure because
they found there had been movement of people and perhaps poultry between it and
the farm where one of 11 geese died last Friday tested positive for an H5 virus,
Clark said at a conference call with journalists.
Samples from the dead birds have been sent to the CFIA laboratory in Winnipeg
in central Canada to determine whether the virus found in the dead goose was the
deadly H5N1 strain. Notification of the result is expected early next week.
