Backyard flock hit with avian flu

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LANGLEY (NEWS1130) – The bird flu has turned up at someone’s backyard coop in Langley.

The Canadian Food Inspection agency confirms a backyard flock in Aldergrove has the H5N2 strain of the avian flu virus.

It is affecting some 85 birds, a mix of ducks, chickens, geese, and turkeys.

This is somebody’s private coop on their own land.

Eleven other sites have the virus, but this is the first non-commercial property to be affected.

The others have been at large scale poultry operations or egg farms in the Fraser Valley where hundreds of thousands of birds have been destroyed.

The virus has also turned up in wild birds Washington State.

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