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A close-up view of a dead Pekin duck in a dumpster a few hundred meters from a Brome Lake Ducks facility in Racine, Quebec.

Workers wearing protective suits stand on top of a dumpster outside the barns at an egg farm near Prague in Czechia. The workers are at the farm to kill and remove the hens from the farm, where an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected. Czechia, 2021. Lukas Vincour / Zvířata Nejíme / We Animals Media

The severed foot of a Pekin duck sits atop the lid of a dumpster a few hundred meters from the barns at a Brome Lake Ducks facility in Racine, Quebec. Canada, 2022. Victoria de Martigny / We Animals Media

An inspector from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) walks towards a barn at a large duck farm wearing a full biohazard suit. A team of two was onsite at this facility in Racine, Quebec taking samples to test for the highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1). Canada, 2022. Victoria de Martigny / We Animals Media

Two enormous barns housing thousands of Pekin ducks sit in a field in Racine, Quebec. Canada, 2022. Victoria de Martigny / We Animals Media

The highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) is affecting millions of wild and domesticated bird populations in North America, Europe, and Asia. When the virus is detected in farm flocks, the farms are deemed a biosecurity hazard and, often, the birds are killed. Depending on the country, the means of ending the birds' lives are by live burial, CO2 poisoning, ventilation shutdown, or through the use of firefighting foam which asphyxiates the birds. Small flocks, backyard flocks, and animal sanctuaries are also affected. If the virus is detected at these farms, all the birds must be killed as well. A small flock farmer from Southern Ontario expressed that they would follow regulations and be without birds for the required time. In the control zones around Southern Ontario, many farms have biosecurity signs, prohibiting pedestrian and vehicular traffic from entering the properties. As of April 27, 2022, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency 717,000 birds have been affected in Canada. Canada, 2022. Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

A biosecurity sign announces that no pedestrians or vehicles should enter a large chicken farm while the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu is in the area. Canada, 2022. Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

A local plumber disinfects his truck before entering a farm where poultry is raised. Disinfecting is required in control zones where the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu is identified. Canada, 2022. Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

A small, curious backyard flock of laying hens. The farmer stated that if H5N1 were to reach his flock, he would follow regulations and kill them, and then simply be without hens for a while, replacing them when it was safe to do so.

A biosecurity sign announces that no pedestrians or vehicles should enter a large chicken or turkey farm while the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu is in the area. Canada, 2022. Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

A Red-winged Blackbird in front of an empty duck farm. The ducks have been killed by carbon dioxide gas (CO2) due to the fears of spread of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus which was found in the ducks in the barn. Wild birds are also dying from the spread of the virus. Canada, 2022. Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

A small, backyard flock of laying hens. The farmer stated that if H5N1 were to reach his flock, he would follow regulations and kill them, and then simply be without hens for a while, replacing them when it was safe to do so. Canada, 2022. Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

Masses of dead hens lie piled inside the bucket of a loader outside the barns of an egg farm near Prague in Czechia. The hens have been killed and workers wearing protective suits are in the process of removing them from the farm due to an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus. Czechia, 2021. Lukas Vincour / Zvířata Nejíme / We Animals Media

Dead hens are dumped on the ground from a garbage container outside the barns at an egg farm near Prague in Czechia. Workers wearing protective suits are killing and removing the hens from this farm due to an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus there. Czechia, 2021. Lukas Vincour / Zvířata Nejíme / We Animals Media

Dead hens are emptied into a large dumpster by workers outside the barns at an egg farm near Prague in Czechia. Workers wearing protective suits are killing and removing the hens from this farm, where an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected. Czechia, 2021. Lukas Vincour / Zvířata Nejíme / We Animals Media

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