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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
Posted on 01/24/2009 1:30:09 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: avianflu; birdflu
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
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posted on
01/24/2009 1:34:29 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
CAFO’s are nothing but breeding grounds for disease.
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posted on
01/24/2009 1:36:06 PM PST
by
lbama
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
01/24/2009 1:37:42 PM PST
by
Perdogg
(Only the hypnotized never lie)
To: 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.
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.
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posted on
01/24/2009 1:41:22 PM PST
by
mountn man
(The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
To: Smokin' Joe; yefragetuwrabrumuy
Pacific Migratory Bird Flyways
North American Migratory Bird Flyways
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posted on
01/24/2009 1:58:20 PM PST
by
LucyT
To: 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.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.
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posted on
01/24/2009 2:01:20 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
World Migratory Bird Flyways
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posted on
01/24/2009 2:03:52 PM PST
by
LucyT
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
01/24/2009 2:13:39 PM PST
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: Canadian Outrage
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posted on
01/24/2009 2:52:00 PM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 5 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: null and void
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.
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posted on
01/24/2009 3:26:40 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
To: little jeremiah
Typically a dictatorship will admit to 1/10 of the actual deaths due to disease, civil unrest, natural disaster or infrastructure failure.
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posted on
01/24/2009 3:37:14 PM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 5 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: Smokin' Joe; little jeremiah; LucyT
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.
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posted on
01/24/2009 4:12:25 PM PST
by
Oorang
(Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
To: LucyT
Oh great, we’ve been seeing hunters going after Canadian geese in the fields just off Camano Island.
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posted on
01/25/2009 4:40:53 AM PST
by
freebird5850
(O-Bomb-a, the sleeper cell that slipped by all of us.)
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