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CFIA’s Winnipeg Lab Receives Reference Laboratory Designation (August 9, 2006)

No Additional Evidence of Avian Influenza Found in P.E.I. Backyard Flock (June 20, 2006)

Governments Respond to Preliminary Finding of Avian Influenza in Backyard Flock in Prince Edward Island (June 16, 2006)

Minister Tony Clement: Progress for Canada at World Health Assembly meeting (May 23, 2006)

Canada launches 2006 wild bird survey for avian influenza (May 18, 2006)

The country’s health ministers are working together to deal with a possible influenza pandemic (May 13, 2006)

New Canadian safety measures for importing live birds (April 21, 2006)

Public Health Agency of Canada launches a Website on the influenza pandemic (March 27, 2006)

Canadian businesses are getting ready (March 21, 2006)

Detection of avian influenza in Canadian wild birds:
Not the same strain as in Asia (November 19, 2005)

The Ottawa Statement to define international priorities
in the event of an influenza pandemic (October 25, 2005)


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CFIA’s Winnipeg Lab Receives Reference Laboratory Designation For AI and BSE


WINNIPEG, July 31, 2006 - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) today announced that its National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease (NCFAD) in Winnipeg has been designated as a Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), during its recently concluded 74th General Session.

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Last update: December 27, 2006