The highly contagious and deadly avian influenza is spreading among poultry in Canada. Government authorities are tracking cases in 12 farms so far in Ontario, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Price says based on what's happening in the U.S, the avian flu will likely spread to each province in Canada.
"There really hasn't been sustained person-to-person transmission and there have been no human cases," she said. "But again, you don't want to miss the first one."That means in regions that are seeing cases of avian flu, health workers should check if people turning up with flu symptoms have had contact with birds and make sure they're checked for the H5N1 strain.
A person can't get infected from eating chicken or other cooked poultry birds. Mubareka said all the standard precautions to handle and cook meat properly were sufficient. "It's the same type of locking down the farm for chickens, locking down the farm from guests, which we don't want to do. We have to do it in order to keep our livelihood."
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