Special Report: Global fight against bird flu

    OTTAWA, June 18 (Xinhua) -- A second farm in Canada's Prince Edward Island has been placed under quarantine after bird flu of H5 strain was found in goose in a farm in that province, authorities said on Sunday

    Jim Clark, national manager of the avian influenza working group of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, said in Ottawa they had not discovered any signs of bird flu on the farm under quarantine.

    However, the CFIA decided to quarantine it as a precautionary measure because they found there had been movement of people and perhaps poultry between it and the farm where one of 11 geese died last Friday tested positive for an H5 virus, Clark said at a conference call with journalists.

    Samples from the dead birds have been sent to the CFIA laboratory in Winnipeg in central Canada to determine whether the virus found in the dead goose was the deadly H5N1 strain. Notification of the result is expected early next week. Enditem