Raquel Kolof is a beef cattle farmer who owns Hough Heritage Farms in Gibsons, B.C.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has shown up in at least 32 herds in eight U.S. states, but not in Canada so far. While farmers are worried, experts say there's no cause for alarm right now thanks to national food safety standards and biosecurity measures in place.
Though she says protections are in place to prevent similar outbreaks from taking place north of the U.S. border, and there have been no confirmed cases of bird flu in Canadian cattle to date, she says she's still worried "that it's coming up here." HPAI typically spreads between birds and has a high mortality rate for avian species, according to Genevieve Toupin, the national veterinary program manager with the CFIA, whose team is responsible for the agency's ruminant and swine programs.
Raywat Deonandan is a global health epidemiologist and associate professor at the University of Ottawa. "One of the beauties of being a small-scale farmer is that I interact with my herd multiple times a day," she said.Hough Heritage Farms owner Raquel Kolof primarily raises beef cattle, but she also raises goats, sheep and pigs.
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