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B.C. avian flu virus has Asian origin new to North America – British Columbia – CBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The avian flu virus involved in an outbreak in British Columbia is related to a deadly strain that has spread through Asia and is now affecting North American poultry for the first time, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says.<\/p>\n

Experts say the presence of an avian flu virus with Asian lineage does not increase the danger to humans \u2014 which remains very low \u2014 but it could pose a significant risk to the poultry industry.<\/p>\n

Nearly 250,000 chickens and turkeys are either dead or set to be euthanized due to avian flu, which has infected 11 sites in B.C.’s Fraser Valley since the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n

Officials have already identified the\u00a0subtype\u00a0as a highly pathogenic, or high-path, strain of\u00a0H5N2. Viruses with high\u00a0pathogenicity\u00a0kill birds, while their low-path counterparts typically do not.<\/p>\n

The agency said tests have determined the virus contains genes both from\u00a0<\/span>H5N2, which is common to North American wild birds, as well as genes from a high-path Eurasian strain of\u00a0<\/span>H5N8. It keeps the label of<\/span>H5N2\u00a0because its N gene is from\u00a0<\/span>H5N2.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This is the first time a Eurasian lineage highly pathogenic H5 virus has caused an outbreak of avian influenza in poultry in North America,” it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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B.C. avian flu virus has Asian origin new to North America – British Columbia – CBC News. The avian flu virus involved in an outbreak in British Columbia is related to a deadly strain that has spread through Asia and is now affecting North American poultry for the first time, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2053,94,103,2054],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-avian-flu","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-influenze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}