French company fears that avian flu will spread across the country again
France
Published May 20, 2023
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France's biggest poultry producer, LDC, warned on Friday that a rise in bird flu cases in the southwest could lead to the virus spreading to the country's main producing regions that were devastated by it last year. Avian flu, commonly referred to as bird flu, killed hundreds of millions of birds around the world last year, disrupting supplies. While there are no documented cases of human-to-human transmission, countries should prepare for any changes in the behavior of the H5N1 virus, the World Health Organization said. France, the second-largest poultry producer in the European Union and the EU country hardest hit in the latest outbreak, reported new cases in duck farms in the southwest, prompting the government to tighten sanitary measures last week. "We are not relaxed at all," LDC Chief Executive Philippe Gelin told Reuters in an interview. He feared that duck farmers who had culled poultry in the southwest could be tempted to revive production in major poultry producing ...
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