According to AFP on the 5th, quoting French Ministry of Agriculture officials, there has been an outbreak of bird flu in southwest France.
More than 200,000 ducks have been put out, and another 400,000 ducks will still be involved.
According to the statistics of the French Ministry of Agriculture, as of January 1, a total of 61 farms across the country had had high-pathogenic avian influenza, of which 48 were located in the department of Lande, New Aquitaine, one of the main producers of foie gras.
In order to prevent the spread of avian influenza, except for farms where the pandemic occurs, all poultry within a radius of 1-3 kilometers will also be put out.
The French Poultry Federation supported the government’s decision and believed that action was needed to be taken in the surrounding areas as soon as possible to prevent the recurrence of hundreds of millions of euros in damage caused by the avian influenza that swept southwest France in the winter of 2016.
Many places in France are located on the migratory bird migration route.
In mid-November 2019, highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks occurred in several French regional farms, and France subsequently upgraded the national avian influenza alert level to a high level.
