Even though it was a low-pathogenic strain, officials have
culled a 39,000-bird flock of turkeys in Jasper County, Missouri.
Farms within a 10-kilometre radius have been tested and
found clear of the virus.
This strain is H5N1 which is different from the one that
devastated the United States egg and turkey industries last year.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued an advisory
to the Canadian poultry industry to step up biosecurity because ducks and geese
are migrating north and could, as they did last year, drop deadly strains of
avian influenza in their poop.
