Canada widened quarantine measures to contain bird flu on Prince Edward Island, where an infected gosling was found on a farm last week.
Tests are under way to check if the virus is the H5N1 strain that has killed more than 140 million poultry and at least 129 people, mainly in Asia. A neighboring property was quarantined to prevent a spread of the virus, identified as an H5 subtype of avian influenza, Marc Richard, a spokesman for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, said yesterday.
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