France: A first outbreak of avian flu detected on a farm in Morbihan

“Europe has been recording a dynamic spread of the avian influenza virus for several weeks” and “the infection pressure linked to migratory wildlife will gradually increase,” explains the ministry. Several infected wild birds were found in the Meuse, Camargue and Morbihan, where “a turkey farm was declared a source” of avian flu. This Wednesday, the level of risk linked to avian flu in the French metropolitan territory will be raised from “negligible” to “moderate”, the Official Journal announced this Tuesday. This decree from the Ministry of Agriculture, “qualifying the level of highly pathogenic avian influenza risk, is taken following the identification of infection dynamics in migratory wild avifauna in neighboring countries and aims to strengthen measures surveillance and prevention”, it is specified in the OJ. The epizootic risk to poultry and other captive birds in the event of infection of wild birds with a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus is classified into ...