Eleven extra industrial poultry farms in Canada have had birds struck by avian metapneumovirus, bringing the nationwide whole to 34 farms affected.
In line with a report from the World Organisation for Animal Well being (WOAH), ten of the brand new flocks had been in Ontario, whereas the opposite was in Manitoba. These are the one two Canadian provinces to have confirmed circumstances of avian metapneumovirus, which WOAH additionally refers to as turkey rhinotracheitis.
The most recent case in Manitoba concerned one turkey, however the dimension of the general flock was not disclosed. The affected farm is situated in Hanover.
Of the Ontario infections, 4 of them had been in Huron County, with every of these flocks being recognized as industrial hen operations. Collectively amongst these 4 flocks, six birds had been contaminated out of a complete 65,000 prone chickens.
Oxford County had two flocks affected, with each of these being industrial turkey farms. One farm had 48,000 turkeys, 4 of which had been contaminated, whereas the opposite had 27,000 turkeys, two of which had been contaminated.
Brant County had a flock affected, with three of three,700 industrial turkeys being struck by the virus.
All different circumstances concerned chickens, with one farm affected in every of the next counties: Wellington, Waterloo and Perth. The Waterloo County flock had one case, whereas the Wellington and Perth flocks had two.
WOAH didn’t elaborate whether or not any of the affected hen operations concerned broilers or layers.
In line with WOAH, all the circumstances in Manitoba concerned an aMPV-A variant of the illness, whereas solely one of many premises in Ontario had been of that variant. All different circumstances in Ontario concerned the aMPV-B variant.
The entire hen samples had been examined on the Nationwide Centre for International Animal Illness laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Presently, Canada is the one nation with a listed report on avian metapneumovirus/turkey rhinotracheitis on the WOAH web site.
