Quebec duck farm says it has to kill 150,000 birds, lay off 300 staff due to avian flu
Once birds that are in the pipeline at unaffected facilities are processed, she says the company will have to lay off staff because there will be no more ducks coming in.Veterinarian Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt of the Université de Montréal says the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu represents the highest-risk strain that Quebec farmers have ever faced.
He said that while it doesn’t pose much of a risk to humans, it’s so contagious that all animals on an infected farm need to be destroyed on site to stop it from spreading.
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