08.07.2016
A duck farm near St. Catharines, Ontario, has been quarantined after a case of avian influenza was confirmed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The strain is an H5N2 (LPAI).
All birds (14,000 - 12-week-old ducks) on the infected property will be euthanized.
In 2015, an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza occurred in Ontario. From April to July.
On Oct. 8 Canada declared Ontario free of notifiable avian influenza.