British Columbia
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has uncovered a lawsuit of Newcastle illness astatine a commercialized pigeon cognition in Chilliwack, B.C., requiring the birds to beryllium culled and the premises to beryllium disinfected.
The Canadian Press
· Posted: Jun 19, 2025 6:23 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says it has uncovered a lawsuit of Newcastle illness astatine a commercialized pigeon cognition in Chilliwack, B.C., requiring the birds to beryllium culled and the premises to beryllium disinfected.
The CFIA says the microorganism affects some chaotic and home birds and tin origin pinkish oculus successful humans.
It says the ailment is of large interest to the world's cultivation assemblage since it's highly contagious and threatens poultry.
The bureau says mild strains impact home poultry and pigeons and much terrible strains tin termination chickens.
It says Newcastle illness tin alteration ovum accumulation successful home birds and origin precocious numbers of abrupt deaths successful a flock, portion chaotic birds tin make helping paralysis and beryllium near incapable to fly.
It says the hazard to humans is debased if gloves are worn portion handling infected birds, and that the illness was seldom recovered to termination chaotic birds earlier 1990.
According to the CFIA website, determination is nary attraction for Newcastle illness and it is presently not imaginable to vaccinate chaotic birds.
With files from CBC's Santana Dreaver