The deadly strain of avian flu ravaging Canada's poultry industry is also felling an unusual number of wild birds and has even jumped to mammals, according to wildlife experts.
. The hardest-hit provinces are Alberta, followed by Ontario, each with 23 farms affected.
Stevens performs necropsies on wild animals that die under unusual circumstances in Ontario and Nunavut for the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative. Stevens said the HPAI strain was first detected in Ontario wildlife in mid-March and the casualties are mounting. As of the start of May, he had detected the virus 55 times in wild animals, a three- to four-fold increase in what he would typically see in his caseload.
The HPAI strain has had devastating effects on the poultry industry on both sides of the Atlantic. In North America, it has killed an estimated 36 million birds, while in Europe, 12 million birds have died in France alone. "We just can't afford to lose them," he said of the trained birds, some of which he's had for more than 15 years.
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