Avian influenza sees decrease in outbreaks in 2023

Avian influenza had a big effect on poultry farms in 2022, but 2023 seems to be a bit quieter on that front.

That's confirmed by Wendy Wilkins, a disease surveillance veterinarian with the livestock branch of the Ministry of Agriculture, who says they've seen zero cases so far.

That's also true for poultry producers across the country.

"Right across the country, cases are down. Central Eastern Canada have seen a few cases earlier this spring, but those were nowhere near the volume of cases that we had in the outbreak in 2022. So we've had zero in Saskatchewan, I think there was one small flock in Alberta and there were a number of commercial premises earlier in the winter, like in January, which was more or less leftover from the 2022 outbreak in BC."