Canadian bird flu case not highly pathogenic H5N1

OTTAWA (Reuters) – A case of bird flu in the eastern
Canadian province of Prince Edward Island was not the highly
pathogenic H5N1 strain, a Canadian source said on Tuesday.

“The news is good. The dead bird was not carrying the
highly pathogenic strain of H5N1,” the source told Reuters,
declining to say exactly what the dead bird had been suffering
from.