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To: Gary Mohilner who wrote (107)	3/23/2004 3:46:52 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 347

Avian flu has been discovered on a third poultry farm in British Columbia's Fraser Valley, forcing the destruction of another 8,500 chickens. More than 60,000 birds have been destroyed since the outbreak was first discovered last month. Fears were raised over the weekend when a spike in mortality rates occurred at the latest farm, which is within a five-kilometre "high-risk zone" surrounding the two previous outbreaks. Employees from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency sent samples from the third farm to the National Centre for Foreign Animal Diseases in Winnipeg, which confirmed that the birds were infected with avian flu. Researchers have determined that the strain is the general H7 type, but do not yet know whether it is the same H7N3 strain found at two nearby farms. The H7 virus is not the same strain that has killed some two dozen people across Asia. It's not believed to pose a serious risk to humans. The latest outbreak was a blow to poultry farmers and inspectors, who suggested last week that the virus was under control. CFIA officials tested more than 2,000 birds at farms in the high-risk zone after news of the second outbreak on March 9, but found no trace of the virus, even on birds from the source of the latest outbreak. But CFIA inspector Cornelius Kiley told The Vancouver Sun that it can sometimes take as long as a week for an infected bird to build up antibodies that would be detected in blood tests. Kiley said the CFIA doesn't know how the virus is spreading between farms. ctv.ca and another... eurekalert.org