With the lifting on the last remaining highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) control zones in Alberta, only one province has an active HPAI control zone.
And the only active control zone does not involve a commercial operation.
“HPAI outbreaks are now closed and zoning restrictions were lifted in all provinces, except in Saskatchewan (one remaining primary control zone,” the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) stated in a recent report.
The WOAH report revealed that the zones surrounding a commercial poultry operation in Mountain View County and a non-commercial poultry operation in Vermillion River County, both in Alberta, were lifted during the final full week of June. The Mountain View County flock was the last confirmed case of HPAI in a commercial operation in Canada, with that infection being confirmed on February 19. The Vermillion River County case was confirmed ten days before the Mountain View County case was confirmed.
The final remaining control zone, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), involves a backyard poultry farm in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. That case was confirmed on November 10, 2023.
To learn more about HPAI cases in commercial poultry flocks in the United States, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
View our continuing coverage of the global avian influenza situation.
