Avian flu has been detected in birds at a second commercial poultry operation in Chilliwack.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the infection was confirmed yesterday -- four days after another farm was quarantined and its flock was ordered destroyed to halt the spread of the highly infectious illness.
The two outbreaks are the first in B-C since April as wild birds are blamed for carrying the H-5-N-1 strain of the virus around the world -- spreading it to domestic flocks through contact in shared ponds or fields.
Before October, the agency says B-C had seen 104 infections since last year, forcing the culling of more than 3.5-million birds.
