Avian flu returns to southwestern Ontario

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has circled back to Ontario for the first time in four months with an outbreak in a commercial poultry flock in Oxford County.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Friday confirmed the outbreak at a farm in the township of Zorra, about 20 km east of London.

Details on the type and number of birds affected at the Zorra premises weren’t immediately available.

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