Farms placed under quarantine after avian flu suspected in B.C.

The Globe and Mail ^ | January 23, 2009 at 9:45 PM EST | ROD MICKLEBURGH AND ROBERT MATAS

[Smokin' Joe]

VANCOUVER/ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — The Fraser Valley has been hit by what disease-control experts suspect is the third outbreak of avian flu to affect the prime agricultural area's numerous poultry flocks in less than five years.

After samples taken from distressed turkeys at a 50,000-bird operation near Abbotsford were found to contain signs of the H5 virus, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency immediately slapped a quarantine on the farm and about two dozen others within a three-kilometre radius.

CFIA officials were waiting for the initial diagnosis to be confirmed by its national testing laboratory in Winnipeg before taking further action.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

[lbama]

CAFO’s are nothing but breeding grounds for disease.

[Perdogg]

0bama’s fault!

[mountn man]

How long before Obama quarantines all the farms, because of avian flu or mad cow or whatever other "pandemic" that is "sure" to decimate man.

After quarantining, it'll become necessary for the government to "bail out" the farm industry by nationalizing it, to prevent anything bad happening ever again.

[LucyT]

Pacific Migratory Bird Flyways

North American Migratory Bird Flyways

[Smokin' Joe]

How long before Obama quarantines all the farms, because of avian flu or mad cow or whatever other "pandemic" that is "sure" to decimate man.

You may not be far off.

Unfortunately, Executive Orders from the Clinton Administration empower the POTUS to sieze any assets deemed necessary in a "crisis". I am sure they will find something so we can all do stoop labor on the collective farms.

[LucyT]

World Migratory Bird Flyways

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[null and void]

ping

[little jeremiah]

China has actually admitted four H5N1 (human) deaths in the last couple of weeks - quite unusual, since they usually hide and lie. Of course these numbers are likely not accurate but they are definitely ramping up the rhetoric on this topic. Why are they doing this is the $64,000 question.

[null and void]

Typically a dictatorship will admit to 1/10 of the actual deaths due to disease, civil unrest, natural disaster or infrastructure failure.

[Oorang]

Thanks for the ping Joe. Abbotsford, BC is just across the border with Washington, specifically Lynden, WA which is also home to a large chicken farm. They supply alot of chicken to the Pacific NW and they are only about 40 miles from the quarantined area.

[freebird5850]

Oh great, we’ve been seeing hunters going after Canadian geese in the fields just off Camano Island.