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Poultry quarantined in more than 5,000 towns in France due to bird flu

France
Published Oct 1, 2022

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It was stated that the level of bird flu epidemic in France has gradually increased and reached a situation that cannot be neglected, and all poultry in 5,000 towns have been quarantined.

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According to the news of the newspaper Le Parisien, all poultry in open or closed farms in 5 thousand towns were quarantined due to the risk of bird flu. It was decided to apply quarantine to all poultry under 42 days in 500 towns. The Ministry of Agriculture has also issued a decree stating that "the level of avian flu has increased from the beginning to the intermediate level" due to the increasing risk of infection for poultry and farm birds. The agriculture union management criticized the Ministry's decision and stated that bird flu spread in closed farms and that this risk did not exist in farms in open areas. The union also argued that the Ministry turned to temporary measures, such as diversifying personnel and animal transportation, rather than taking measures to prevent the reproduction and spread of the virus. In the country, the Governorate of the Indre-et-Loire region recently culled 36,000 poultry in the region after the H5N1 avian flu virus was found in a poultry ...
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