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Avian influenza: The future of the French poultry sector is seriously threatened

France
Published May 6, 2022

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The outbreaks of avian influenza registered in France have already forced the sacrifice of 15 million poultry, which represent around 5% of the existing flock in the neighboring country, according to the USDA through one of its reports. are registering new cases due to the new existing variant of the virus, which is extremely transmissible and is spreading the disease at high speed. French poultry producers are in a situation of extreme tension in the face of this situation, but also in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has forced a significant increase in production costs and seriously threatens the competitiveness of this industry. Until the end of April there were already 1,300 infected poultry farms in France and, although the first outbreaks began to be registered in the south-west of the country, where ducks are raised in the wild for the production of foie gras, since the beginning of this year the virus has also spread to other he western areas, ...
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