Quarantine zone set up after bird flu detected in southern Ontario
OTTAWA — Food safety officials have established the parameters of a quarantine zone around an Ontario duck farm where a case of bird flu was detected last week.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the quarantine zone covering a three-kilometre radius has been placed around the farm near St. Catharines.
Last week, the agency announced about 14,000 ducks at the commercial farm would be destroyed because of the H5N2 avian influenza.
A spokesman for the agency said in an email Sunday that a “humane depopulation of birds on the infected premise” had been completed.