Avian flu certainly deserves more media attention. It is currently impacting our poultry sector and has become a real problem. Unlike previous strains, the ...
The price of poultry and eggs is expected to increase in the next few weeks due to avian flu. This year alone, the avian flu has infected approximately 200 farms with over 3.6 million birds across Canada. That’s a lot of inventory that never reached the consumer market, writes Sylvain Charlebois.Avian flu certainly deserves more media attention. It is currently impacting our poultry sector and has become a real problem.
In Canada, where supply management and our quota system typically stabilize the balance between supply and demand, the scenario is not much better. Eggs in Canada have increased by about 20 per cent in some regions — the largest annual increase in 50 years. The avian flu has also reached other continents, such as Europe and Asia. The current strain is highly pathogenic and can spread at an unmanageable rate. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency recently said it believes migratory birds are responsible for the spread of disease in Canada. If the flu is transmitted through wild birds, almost no poultry operation will be immune and risk management will be virtually impossible.
But bird flu has been threatening the industry for months, and the pressure for some growers has become unbearable. There is no other remedy, no vaccine for birds. Researchers are now mobilizing to possibly develop a vaccine for birds. The risk of seeing this epizootic virus turn into a zoonosis, a human epidemic, is still real.
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