Nearly 4.18 million poultry have been slaughtered since the start of the crisis to curb avian flu in France, the Ministry of Agriculture announced on Thursday, which plans to put animals back in place in the South-West at the end of March.
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Faced with the sudden acceleration of the epizootic in the south-west of France, the French government decided on January 20 to increase preventive slaughter.
"The depopulation programmed by these measures is now complete,"
the ministry said in a statement.
