France: 2.9 million poultry get slaughtered since the start of The Avian Influenza

France

Published Feb 2, 2022

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Nearly three million poultry, including 1.9 million waterfowl, have been slaughtered to curb avian flu since the first cases detected inbreeding at the end of November, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Tuesday. According to a census of the ministry, France has 328 households in farms, including 218 in the Landes, in the heart of the country of foie gras, where massive slaughters have been organized. This is the fourth episode of avian flu that has affected France - and particularly the South West - since 2015. The last one, last winter, led to the slaughter of more than 3.5 million poultry, mainly ducks. Its European neighbors are not spared, in particular Italy where 18 million poultry have been slaughtered since October.

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Nearly three million poultry, including 1.9 million waterfowl, have been slaughtered to curb avian flu since the first cases detected in breeding at the end of November, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Tuesday. According to a census of the ministry, France has 328 households in farms, including 218 in the Landes, in the heart of the country of foie gras, where massive slaughters have been organized. This is the fourth episode of avian flu that has affected France - and particularly the South West - since 2015. The last one, last winter, led to the slaughter of more than 3.5 million poultry, mainly ducks . Its European neighbors are not spared, in particular Italy where 18 million poultry have been slaughtered since October. Faced with the sudden acceleration of the epizootic in January in the south-west of France, the French government decided on January 20 to increase preventive slaughter in an area mainly covering the south of the Landes, but also the west of the Gers and ...

Source: Bfmtv