This week, Canada’s largest duck supplier announced it was temporarily shuttering all 13 of its sites because of avian flu
The first birds were found dead in Saint-Claude, a small town in rural Quebec. A few days later, at another Brome Lake Ducks farm site about an hour away, the birds stopped laying eggs. And a week after that, at Brome Lake’s facility in nearby Wotton, the birds there fell sick, too.
“When you see the CO2 trucks go by your office and you know that they’re headed another 30 seconds into the barn – it’s just heart-wrenching,” she said. “It’s terrible.” “This one is much more severe in terms of spread, not in terms of disease severity,” said Shayan Sharif, a professor in the veterinary college at the University of Guelph in Ontario.
She emphasized that the avian virus does not pose a threat to food safety. “This is a flock health issue, not a food safety issue,” Ms. Bishop-Spencer said. “Lac Brome and King Cole are the backbone of the industry,” he said. “If they go down … that’s basically it.”
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