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| A couple of chickens feed on a hobby farm in Maple Ridge, B.C., Monday, Apr. 5, 2004. Five Fraser Valley farms have been placed under quarantine and more than 140,000 turkeys and chickens will be euthanized. At least seven countries have banned poultry products from either B.C. or all of Canada. (RICHARD LAM/CP) |
Poultry producers across Canada are keeping an eye on the avian-flu situation in the Fraser Valley, but the outbreak has had little effect outside B.C., industry officials say.
Five Fraser Valley farms have been placed under quarantine and more than 140,000 turkeys and chickens will be euthanized. At least seven countries have banned poultry products from either B.C. or all of Canada.
The outbreak has stirred up memories of 2004, when avian flu led to the slaughter of 17 million chickens, turkeys and other domestic birds at more than 40 Fraser Valley farms. That outbreak cost the industry hundreds of millions of dollars.
Mike Dungate, executive director of the Chicken Farmers of Canada, said in an interview on Sunday that poultry producers in other provinces have yet to feel much impact as a result of the situation in B.C.