This was on the www July 5, 2006, FYI.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Final tests on a backyard flock suspected of having bird flu found no evidence of the H5 virus, Canada's food inspection agency said on Wednesday, lifting a quarantine placed on the noncommercial farm last month.

"All birds tested negative on serological and virological tests ... The testing is now complete," the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a statement.

Fears of an outbreak of the highly pathogenic strain of bird flu began in mid-June when preliminary tests on a dead gosling from the flock in tiny Prince Edward Island found evidence of the potentially highly-pathogenic H5 subtype.

However, a second round of tests on the flock found no additional evidence of the H5 virus.

The final tests attempted to grow the virus from samples from the affected gosling to gather more information about the strain, but those tests also turned up "no further evidence of the virus," the CFIA said.

The H5N1 avian flu virus has killed 131 people in 9 countries but not all H5 viruses are highly pathogenic. Canada has had low pathogenic bird flu outbreaks in the past.