10 h. ago B.C. ostrich farm wins stay of cull in federal appeal court, pending reveiw

The owners of Universal Ostrich Farm have been fighting an order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to cull their flock after it was hit with an avian flu outbreak last year.

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10 h. ago B.C. ostrich farm wins stay of cull in federal appeal court, pending review

The owners of Universal Ostrich Farm have been fighting an order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to cull their flock after it was hit with an avian flu outbreak last year.

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2 w. ago B.C. ostrich farm calls for independent testing to prevent ‘unnecessary destruction’

The operators of a British Columbia ostrich flock that's facing a cull order after an avian flu outbreak are calling for independent testing of the birds to prevent their "unnecessary destruction."

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2 w. ago B.C. ostrich farm calls for testing to prevent ’unnecessary destruction’

U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz has offered to relocate the birds to Florida.

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2 w. ago B.C. ostrich farm failed to contain bio risk from avian flu, agency says

Universal Ostrich Farm “failed to undertake appropriate biosecurity risk mitigation measures,” the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a statement.

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3 w. ago Breaking: CFIA fines B.C. ostrich farm over avian flu violations, says cull planning goes on

CFIA says the farm has not substantiated claims of scientific research, and that the agency's planning for a cull of the birds continues

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3 w. ago CFIA fines B.C. ostrich farm and says cull will occur, rejecting U.S. intervention

CFIA says the farm has not substantiated claims of scientific research, and that the agency's planning for a cull of the birds continues

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3 w. ago Ostriches at B.C. farm have version of avian flu not seen elsewhere in Canada: CFIA

It said the version includes a genotype that has been associated with a human infection in a poultry worker in Ohio.

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3 w. ago Canada’s agricultural minister weighs in on B.C. ostrich farm, U.S. political interest

Minister Heath MacDonald said the government is in a process with the CFIA and all the facts are being taken into consideration when it comes to the fate of the birds.

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3 w. ago B.C. ostrich farm declines help from Dr. Oz to save birds from planned cull

Oz is the administrator for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is the second health official in the Trump administration to try to prevent the cull.

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3 w. ago B.C. ostrich cull controversy: How we got here and what happens next

It has been almost six months since the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered the birds culled after an outbreak of avian flu

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3 w. ago Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asks CFIA to reconsider ostrich cull at B.C. farm

U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is urging Canada to halt a planned ostrich cull in B.C., calling for a joint study of the birds’ immune response to avian flu.

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3 w. ago RFK Jr. asks Canadian regulator to reconsider ostrich cull at B.C. farm

U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is urging Canada to halt a planned ostrich cull in B.C., calling for a joint study of the birds’ immune response to avian flu.

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4 w. ago Ostrich reportedly shot and killed at farm in Edgewood B.C.: RCMP investigating

Cpl. James Grandy with the Southeast District RCMP confirmed to Global News that Nakusp RCMP received a report of an ostrich being shot and killed.

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