Nearly 150,000 birds will have to be slaughtered after a Quebec duck-farming operation detects avian flu at three of its facilities. It will also lay off nearly 300 employees
A Quebec duck-farming operation that detected avian flu at three of its facilities says it has to slaughter 150,000 birds and lay off nearly 300 employees.
She said in an interview today that one the facilities affected by the H5N1 flu contained all the company’s breeding stock, including 400,000 Pekin duck eggs that were ordered destroyed. Veterinarian Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt of the Universite de Montreal says the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu represents the highest-risk strain that Quebec farmers have ever faced.
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