Dr. Oz Offers To Import 400 Canadian Bird Flu Farm Ostriches [Video]

Dr. Mehmet Oz has offered sanctuary to 400 ostriches facing death in Canada due to bird flu.

Dr. Oz, the Trump appointed director of the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), along with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, have intervened to rescue the flightless birds after authorities in British Columbia pledged to cull them amid an outbreak of avian flu.

Why It Matters

In January, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) ordered the birds be killed after 69 of the same flock at Universal Ostrich Farm in the West Kootenays died from the highly infectious virus. The farm has been fighting the order in court.

Newsweek has contacted the CFIA for comment via email.

The U.S. is currently dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of avian flu in decades which sent egg prices soaring. The CFIA has said it believes some 14 million domestic birds in Canada have been hit by the disease.

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