August 5, 2011
OTTAWA — Food inspection agents are gearing up to conduct their annual survey of wild birds to check current levels of avian influenza.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued an advance contract notice, which closes next week, for companies interested in overseeing the survey, which examines both dead and live birds all over the country and detects levels and patterns of bird flu.
The study, first launched in 2005, identifies disease-causing strains, such as the deadly H5N1, in wild geese, ducks, swans and other fowl so government officials can better determine how to stop their spread should there be an outbreak.
Read more: http://www.canada.com/health/Ottawa+prepares+annual+wild+bird+survey+detect+bird+levels/5213642/story.html#ixzz1UKvnvuOW
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