Saturday, November 7, 2009

Salmon Hatchery Not Worried About Swine Flu

The manager of a major salmon hatchery near St Stephen says he's not worried about the threat of the H-1-N-1 flu.

Brian Donnelly of Cooke Aquaculture says he doesn't think it poses any danger to his valuable salmon stock -- he says he's not aware of warm blooded pathogens mixing with cold blooded species and Donnelly says the hatchery has a very strict disinfection program in place a 13-year old cat in the U-S was confirmed having the H-1-N-1 virus earlier this week.
Meantime -- earlier this week a 13-year old cat in the U-S was confirmed as having the H-1-N-1 flu.