CANADA BIRD FLU

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has declared Canada officially free of bird flu, six months having passed since the last registered case of the disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed that the outbreak had been confined to the Fraser Valley area of British Columbia province.



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