Vaccinated French ducks test positive for bird flu

The two affected duck flocks number 7,500 and 30,200 animals, all of which have been culled. This is reported by Wattagnet.com. The two companies are located in Morbihan in Brittany, in the west of France. They are not allowed to be restocked for the time being. One of the companies wanted to buy new ducks to produce foie gras for the Christmas period. A few days earlier, a poultry farm with 27,500 birds in the same region was hit by a highly pathogenic variant of the bird flu virus. It has not been announced which type of poultry was involved. In early January, bird flu was also found at a duck farm in the French department of Vendeé, just below Nantes. An experiment was underway in this region in which the ducks on some of the farms were vaccinated with a third dose. It is unclear whether this farm was in that group. French officials already indicated that vaccination does not eliminate the risk in poultry, but can only reduce the spread and circulation of the virus. Slovakia ...