The federal government is providing $1.81 million over the next three years to help the British Columbia Poultry Association to respond to future outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
The money is to be used to develop and implement standard training, maintain personal protection equipment inventories and upgrade poultry worker training education and biocontainment procedures.
More than 100 commercial and non-commercial chicken operations in British Columbia were infected with HPAI between April 2022 and April 2023, resulting in the deaths of nearly 3.7 million birds.
