The avian influenza in British Columbia is H5N2, the same virus that caused previous outbreaks in Canada, says Canadian Press. Officials have quarantined four poultry farms in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver because of the disease. “A source tells The Canadian Press that tests have determined the virus is a high-pathogenicity, or high-path, strain of H5N2,” said the news agency.
The bird flu that has hit European flocks is H5N8.