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OTTAWA, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A mild form of avian flu has been found on a farm in British Columbia while two more human deaths were confirmed in Southeast Asia Thursday.
The H7 virus found is the same low-risk strain that was discovered last week in the United States but not the same H5N1 strain of bird flu that has ravaged Asian poultry stocks and led to the deaths of 22 people, .
Canada's Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew said the B.C. farm on the Lower Mainland where the virus was detected had been isolated and there is no risk to human health.
Authorities are testing samples to find out how deadly the virus is to the poultry it infects. That information is expected to be available on Friday.
Two more human deaths from avian influenza A were confirmed in Southeast Asia Thursday, where some 2.3 million poultry have been destroyed.
Poultry have been infected in eight Asian countries with nine human fatalities reported in Thailand and Vietnam.
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