Another chicken farm has been put under quarantine over fears of avian flu in Canada's central Saskatchewan province, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced Saturday.
But the agency said the move is only a precautionary measure, and there has been no signs of disease at the small farm, located less than 3 kilometers away from Pedigree Poultry, which officials confirmed to be infected with H7N3 strain of avian influenza Thursday.
The CFIA said the quarantine measures are standard given the close proximity of the two farms. It said it had tested 20 chickens of the second farm and found no signs of disease.
Pedigree Poultry is located 40 kilometers north of provincial capital Regina. More than 50,000 chickens there will be killed in a few days and all equipment sanitized.
An outbreak of H7N3 strain of avian flu in 2004 forced the killing of 17 million farm birds in British Columbia, costing the poultry industry dearly.
Source: Xinhua
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