No commercial poultry flocks have been affected by the HPAI in Quebec, but three wild geese have been identified, each in a different area. The Quebec Department of Forests, Wildlife and Parks posted a message on its Facebook page on April 4 that an HPAI H5N1 variant had been confirmed in a Canadian goose in Granby, a goose in Saint-jean-sur-le-Richelieu and to another goose in Saint-Isidore-de-La-Prairie. The ministry said the HPAI discovery in Quebec was “expected” as the virus spreads elsewhere in Canada and the United States. The other provinces in Canada that have confirmed HPAI cases are British Columbia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. However, of these provinces, only two of them had confirmed cases of commercial poultry. Ontario had three such cases, while Nova Scotia had one. At least three of those commercial cases were in turkey flocks, and officials have not yet announced which species is involved in the third commercial case reported in Ontario. So far in 2022, HPAI has been confirmed in commercial poultry flocks in the following states: North Dakota, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Indiana, North Carolina and Texas. The Texas case involved pheasants. Between the two North American countries, the HPAI has affected approximately 24.1 million commercial poultry heads to date by 2022. That number does not include one case in Ontario, one pheasant herd in Texas or another recently confirmed case in Missouri. To learn more about HPAI cases in commercial poultry flocks in North America, see an interactive map at WATTPoultry.com. Read the ongoing coverage of the global bird flu epidemic.
