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Posted AT 9:28 PM EDT on 11/04/04

Emergency declared over dead fowl

Canadian Press

Vancouver — B.C.'s Emergency Preparedness Act was invoked Saturday to enable officials to begin disposing of the potentially millions of carcasses of poultry infected with Avian flu. Solicitor-General Rich Coleman signed the order to allow infected poultry from the depopulation of 19 million birds to be taken to landfills and incinerators. B.C.

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