AB, Canada: 2022 - 2023 Bird flu in poultry

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Canada - High pathogenicity avian influenza viruses (poultry) (Inf. with) - Follow up report 3


GENERAL INFORMATION

COUNTRY/TERRITORY OR ZONE
ZONE

ANIMAL TYPE
TERRESTRIAL

DISEASE CATEGORY
Listed disease

EVENT ID
5229

DISEASE
High pathogenicity avian influenza viruses (poultry) (Inf. with)

CAUSAL AGENT
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus

GENOTYPE / SEROTYPE / SUBTYPE
H5N1

START DATE
2023/09/07

REASON FOR NOTIFICATION
Recurrence of an eradicated disease

DATE OF LAST OCCURRENCE
2015/03/10

CONFIRMATION DATE
2023/09/14

EVENT STATUS
On-going

END DATE - SELF-DECLARATION

NO REPORT INFORMATION

REPORT NUMBER
Follow-up report 3

REPORT ID
FUR_163281

REPORT REFERENCE
CAN-2023-HPAIP-004

REPORT DATE
2023/10/16

REPORT STATUS
Validated

NO EVOLUTION REPORT


EPIDEMIOLOGY

SOURCE OF EVENT OR ORIGIN OF INFECTION

• Unknown or inconclusive
• Contact with wild species

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL COMMENTS
This event is the continuation of event 4294. We report 2 new infected premises (IP) in Alberta. The CFIA has immediately quarantined the IP and is implementing strict movement controls and a stamping out policy. Primary control zones (PCZ) have been put in place around the IP. Surveillance is ongoing in the affected areas. Wildlife surveillance as well as the Canadian Notifiable Avian Influenza Surveillance System (CanNAISS) activities for poultry are ongoing in Canada.

QUANTITATIVE DATA SUMMARY

MEASURING UNIT
Animal

SpeciesSusceptibleCasesDeathsKilled and Disposed ofSlaughtered/ Killed for commercial useVaccinated Birds (DOMESTIC)NEW627803733736240700TOTAL64740763763639 7700

DIAGNOSTIC DETAILS

CLINICAL SIGNS
YES

METHOD OF DIAGNOSTIC
Diagnostic test, Clinical

Gene sequencing	Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease (NCFAD), Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health	Birds	4	2023/09/14	2023/10/12	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease (NCFAD), Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health	Birds	4	2023/09/14	2023/10/12	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	Lethbridge Laboratory	Birds	2	2023/09/11	2023/10/12	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	Alberta Agriculture, Forestry, and Rural Economic Development	Birds	1	2023/09/27	2023/10/03	Positive
Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)	Prairie Diagnostic Services inc., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	Birds	1	2023/09/20	2023/09/20	Positive

https://wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/5229

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Canada - High pathogenicity avian influenza viruses (poultry) (Inf. with) - Follow up report 2


GENERAL INFORMATION

COUNTRY/TERRITORY OR ZONE
ZONE

ANIMAL TYPE
TERRESTRIAL

DISEASE CATEGORY
Listed disease

EVENT ID
5229

DISEASE
High pathogenicity avian influenza viruses (poultry) (Inf. with)

CAUSAL AGENT
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus

GENOTYPE / SEROTYPE / SUBTYPE
H5N1

START DATE
2023/09/07

REASON FOR NOTIFICATION
Recurrence of an eradicated disease

DATE OF LAST OCCURRENCE
2015/03/11

CONFIRMATION DATE
2023/09/14

EVENT STATUS
On-going

END DATE - SELF-DECLARATION
NO REPORT INFORMATION

REPORT NUMBER
Follow-up report 2

REPORT ID
FUR_163051

REPORT REFERENCE
CAN-2023-HPAIP-003

REPORT DATE
2023/10/04

REPORT STATUS
Validated

NO EVOLUTION REPORT

EPIDEMIOLOGY

SOURCE OF EVENT OR ORIGIN OF INFECTION

• Unknown or inconclusive
• Contact with wild species

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL COMMENTS
This event is the continuation of event 4294. We report 1 new infected premises (IP) in Alberta. The CFIA has immediately quarantined the IP and is implementing strict movement controls and a stamping out policy. Primary control zone (PCZ) has been put in place around the IP. Surveillance is ongoing in the affected area. Wildlife surveillance as well as the Canadian Notifiable Avian Influenza Surveillance System (CanNAISS) activities for poultry are ongoing in Canada.

QUANTITATIVE DATA SUMMARY

MEASURING UNIT
Animal

SpeciesSusceptibleCasesDeathsKilled and Disposed ofSlaughtered/ Killed for commercial useVaccinated Birds (DOMESTIC)NEW------TOTAL1960390390157000

https://wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/5229

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Source: https://www.canadiancattlemen.ca/dai...hewan-alberta/


High-path avian flu pops back up in Saskatchewan, Alberta
Canada keeps sights on 'country-level freedom' from virus
By Dave Bedard
GFM Network News
Reading Time: 3 minutes
Published: 11 hours ago

...Reports from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) showed no HPAI detections in domestic birds from May 6 up until Sept. 11, when a commercial chicken and turkey broiler and layer operation, east of New Dayton in southern Alberta’s Warner County, was found to have the virus...

...A third outbreak was confirmed Friday in domestic birds at a “non-commercial, non-poultry” premises in central Alberta’s Red Deer County.

Past those three, five other non-commercial premises are still listed as “infected” — two in Alberta, two in Saskatchewan and one in British Columbia....

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Canada - High pathogenicity avian influenza viruses (poultry) (Inf. with) - Immediate notification

GENERAL INFORMATION
COUNTRY/TERRITORY OR ZONE
ZONE

ANIMAL TYPE
TERRESTRIAL

DISEASE CATEGORY
Listed disease

EVENT ID
5229

DISEASE
High pathogenicity avian influenza viruses (poultry) (Inf. with)

CAUSAL AGENT
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus

GENOTYPE / SEROTYPE / SUBTYPE
H5N1

START DATE
2023/09/07

REASON FOR NOTIFICATION
Recurrence of an eradicated disease

DATE OF LAST OCCURRENCE
2015/03/13

CONFIRMATION DATE
2023/09/14

EVENT STATUS
On-going

END DATE
-

SELF-DECLARATION
NO

REPORT INFORMATION
REPORT NUMBER
Immediate notification

REPORT ID
IN_162735

REPORT REFERENCE
CAN-2023-HPAIP-001

REPORT DATE
2023/09/15

REPORT STATUS
Validated

NO EVOLUTION REPORT
-

EPIDEMIOLOGY
SOURCE OF EVENT OR ORIGIN OF INFECTION
Unknown or inconclusive
Contact with wild species

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL COMMENTS
This event is the continuation of event 4294. We report 1 new infected premises (IP) in Alberta. The CFIA has immediately quarantined the IP and is implementing strict movement controls and a stamping out policy. Primary control zone (PCZ) has been put in place around the IP. Surveillance is ongoing in the affected area. Wildlife surveillance as well as the Canadian Notifiable Avian Influenza Surveillance System (CanNAISS) activities for poultry are ongoing in Canada.

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NEW OUTBREAKS

OB_124931 - AB-HPAIP-2023-062 - WARNER COUNTY (AB-IP62)

OUTBREAK REFERENCE
AB-HPAIP-2023-062

START DATE
2023/09/07

END DATE
-

DETAILED CHARACTERISATION
Clade: 2.3.4.4b - Lineage: Reassortment Eurasian and North American

FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
Alberta

SECOND ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
Division No. 2

THIRD ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
Warner County No. 5

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL UNIT
Farm

LOCATION
Warner County (AB-IP62)

Latitude, Longitude
49.38 , -112.28

(Approximate location)
OUTBREAKS IN CLUSTER
-

MEASURING UNIT
Animal

AFFECTED POPULATION DESCRIPTION
- This is a commercial turkey-broiler, chicken-broilers & layers farm. The geographic coordinates do not represent the actual location of the premises.

SpeciesSusceptibleCasesDeathsKilled and Disposed ofSlaughtered/ Killed for commercial useVaccinated
Birds (DOMESTIC)
Poultry
NEW 1960 390 390 1570 0 0
TOTAL 1960 390 390 1570 0 0
...

https://wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/5229

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Avian flu continues to concern ranchers in Alberta

Stephanie Rousseau
Posted at 7:22 a.m.

Poultry farmers in Alberta remain concerned about the risk of avian flu contamination in 2023. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ( CFIA), as of January 17, "there were a total of 60 infected locations in Alberta, 14 locations are still under quarantine [...] and 46 locations have taken steps to resume normal operations."

The agency specifies that there are currently two Primary Control Zones in Alberta . These zones are established within 10 kilometers of an infected location to prevent the spread of avian influenza. The movement of birds, their products and objects exposed to birds cannot take place without authorization.

Maria Leslie, public affairs manager for Alberta Chicken Producers , which represents poultry producers, is pleased that no new outbreaks have been found since November, but knows that the coming months could turn out to be less rosy. We exercise an abundance of precaution. Our farmers operate under tight biosecurity protocols.

She says 1.4 million wild or farmed birds have been euthanized in Alberta due to the disease.

We do not want to speculate on what is coming for 2023 because even in 2022, we could never have predicted what happened in Alberta. The risk of a resurgence of bird flu is still a reality, we are in a corridor for migratory birds , she adds.

Professor of health economics at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Guillaume Lhermie, says the return of migratory birds in the spring is expected to increase the number of cases. The winter is quiet, but since the avian flu follows the migratory flows, it is likely that there will be a flashback in the spring.

Guillaume Lhermie believes that it is quite likely that there will be outbreaks "because, especially in South America, there have been several cases declared in Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and even with human infection in Bolivia”.

Alberta notes that the bird flu virus appears to be circulating primarily in the southern part of the province since December.

Mortality associated with H5 avian influenza in Canada geese and some dabbling ducks continues in partially frozen rivers, reservoirs and ponds in southern Alberta. [...] Fresh or frozen dead geese have been seen on the ice near the Oldman and South Saskatchewan rivers, with concentrations near Lethbridge, Coaldale, Taber, Bow Island and Medicine Hat.

Biosecurity protocols to follow

A breeder who represents hatching egg breeders in the province, Jeff Notenbomer, is concerned. Bird flu has been circulating in the wild for years, but the strain circulating is terrible. It kills wild birds, which did not happen before, and it is transmitted in our farms very easily.

He says breeders are careful to follow biosecurity protocols.

“ Not a single hammer, screwdriver, chaff, sawdust or grain can enter without [being] cleaned or treated and there is always a risk. »
— A quote from Jeff Notenbomer, breeder

Once the virus circulates in a farm, transmission is very rapid. A flock of birds can be gone in 4 days and for us who produce hatching eggs it takes 18 months to get back to normal, it's a long process.

Hope for a vaccine

Professor Guillaume Lhermie believes that a vaccine could improve the situation in 2023. This is a strategy for which Europe is pushing enormously. There are two laboratories which are developing a vaccine against the influenza virus to limit losses, but also to limit supply disruptions and mass euthanasia carried out to prevent the spread of the disease.

“ We know today that it is very difficult to control the contagiousness of the disease with only biosecurity measures, a credible alternative is vaccination. The vaccines are expected probably for the fall of 2023. ”
— A quote from Guillaume Lhermie, Professor of Health Economics, University of Calgary
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So far, Ottawa has paid Canadian farmers $64.8 million in compensation in response to avian flu. All the speakers recall that avian flu is not dangerous for humans.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle...olaille-poulet

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Source: https://www.rmotoday.com/beyond-loca...l-zone-6205993

Avian influenza detected on Mountain View County farm prompts new control zone
Of the 162 birds at the Mountain View County site where avian influenza was detected, 156 were infected and died while the six others were killed and also disposed of
Dan Singleton Dan Singleton
about 11 hours ago

MOUNTAIN VIEW COUNTY - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has established a primary control zone (PCZ) around a poultry farm in Mountain View County east of Didsbury following the discovery of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) on the non-commercial property, officials said.

As a result of the declaration, birds, their products and by-products, as well as things exposed to birds cannot be moved into, out of, within, or through PCZ except by permission of the agency.

The zone itself is bordered on the north by the Bergen Road, Rge. Rd. 282 on the east, Twp. Rd. 313 on the south, and Rge. Rd. 290 on the west, according to a map published on the CFIA website...

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Source: https://www.albertafarmexpress.ca/ne...op-in-october/

Avian flu cases drop in October
By Alberta Farmer Staff
Published: November 4, 2022

After soaring sharply in September, no commercial poultry operations in Alberta were hit by H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza during the first three weeks of October.

As of Oct. 24, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency website had only four incidents for the month.

Three were for “non-poultry” and the lone poultry flock was a non-commercial one that was reported on Oct. 13. That’s a dramatic change from September, when 15 flocks (all but two commercial) were infected...

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Source: https://www.stalberttoday.ca/local-n...ration-5948677

Bird flu found in non-commercial County operation
Highly pathogenic avian influenza was detected in at least one non-commercial poultry operation in Sturgeon County on Oct. 5, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says efforts to control the outbreak are still ongoing.
Jack Farrell Jack Farrell
about 3 hours ago

A highly transmissible strain of bird flu has been detected in a non-commercial poultry operation in Sturgeon County, according to the federal food agency.

The outbreak follows a separate commercial poultry operation in another area of Sturgeon County last month. Since April 6, 2022, the CFIA said, there have been 50 infected premises in Alberta. Of the 50 premises, 15 have been non-commercial while the remaining 35 were commercial operations.

As of Oct. 12, the CFIA estimates that highly pathogenic avian influence (HPAI) has impacted 1,319,000 birds in Alberta, which is more than any other province. In total, 3,119,000 birds have been affected across Canada this year...

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Source: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/virulent-...ocks-1.6086500

Virulent avian influenza continues to hit Alberta poultry flocks
Bill Macfarlane
CTV News Calgary Video Journalist
Updated Sept. 27, 2022 5:24 p.m. EDT
Published Sept. 27, 2022 3:13 p.m. EDT

As the first wild ducks and geese begin their fall flight south, highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI,, is once again hitting Alberta's bird farmers hard.

A dozen new outbreaks have been detected in September and all but one are in commercial flocks.

According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, there are currently 26 farms in Alberta with active infections, significantly more than any other province.

British Columbia currently lists 11 infected farms, Ontario has 10 and Saskatchewan sits at nine...

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Source: https://www.stalberttoday.ca/local-n...county-5833266

Bird flu detected in portion of Sturgeon County
A serious strain of avian influenza that swept through North America for the first time ever earlier this year has surfaced again in a specific area of Sturgeon County.
Jack Farrell
about 2 hours ago

A serious strain of avian influenza that swept through North America for the first time ever earlier this year has surfaced again in a specific area of Sturgeon County.

On Sept. 1, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) declared an outbreak of H5N1 — a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza — throughout Redwater, Eastgate, Amelia, and the farmland in between. The boundaries of the detected outbreak down to specific range and township roads, as well as geographical coordinates, can be found on the CFIA's website.

In the designation order published by the CFIA, it states that the outbreak applies to commercial and non-commercial poultry.

"This includes day-old poultry and hatching eggs, eggs and other products or by-products of such captive domestic poultry, and things that have been exposed to such a bird, and other captive birds (including birds that are raised in captivity for racing, exhibitions, zoological collections, competitions, or pets) if movements may result in contact with commercial or non-commercial poultry or their facilities." the designation order reads.

In an email to The Gazette, the CFIA said, "cases of avian influenza are confirmed through laboratory testing when a producer or veterinarian reports signs of the disease in domestic birds.”

The CFIA said it does not share information about the specific operation, farm, or premises the disease was detected in...

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Source: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/millions-...-flu-1.6069732

More than a million Alberta chickens, turkeys and geese euthanized due to avian flu
Michael Franklin
CTVNewsCalgary.ca Senior Digital Producer
Published Sept. 15, 2022 11:13 a.m. EDT

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says the number of birds infected with avian flu is growing in the country and Alberta has the highest number of cases of the disease.

The organization released an update on confirmed cases of H5N1 in poultry farms on its website on Wednesday.

That data indicates there are 18 "infected premises" in Alberta and investigations were launched on Sept. 12 at a farm in Willow Creek County and another near Drumheller, Alta...

The CFIA has not confirmed any cases so far at either of those locations....

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Latest case in poultry Sept. 4th in Strathcona Co. https://inspection.canada.ca/animal-...934#wb-auto-19

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Source: https://www.wattagnet.com/articles/4...lberta-poultry

Another avian flu case confirmed in Alberta poultry
After a pause in new cases that lasted nearly a month, the virus is found in a flock in Athabasca County
A new case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in Alberta, Canada.

The virus, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), was detected on August 23 in a commercial flock in Athabasca County, the first confirmed case of 2022 for that county.

The CFIA did not disclose information regarding the size of the flock, or the type of birds on the premises...

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List of outbreaks: https://inspection.canada.ca/animal-...934#wb-auto-19

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.stettlerindependent.com/...y-of-stettler/

Avian Influenza outbreak confirmed in County of Stettler
Jul. 30, 2022 9:30 p.m.

On July 30, 2022 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed the presence of Avian Influenza in a flock within the County of Stettler.
An investigation has begun. A quarantine and control protocols have been implemented in the affected area.
The county stated no further details about the outbreak will be released at this time...

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List of outbreaks in Alberta: https://inspection.canada.ca/animal-...934#wb-auto-17