The worst episode of bird flu ever seen in France is coming to an end.
The government will reduce this Wednesday the whole of France from the “moderate” risk to “negligible”.
Some departments such as the Dordogne will still maintain health restriction measures for a few days, but
“the absence of new outbreaks since May 17 and the less favorable conditions for the spread of the virus have prompted this lowering of the level of vigilance”
, details- do we at the Ministry of Agriculture.
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The fact remains that with 1,400 outbreaks detected in six months, 16 million poultry slaughtered and losses of several hundred million euros, French poultry farmers are paying a heavy price this year for this disease - not transmissible to humans -, which They have been hitting them harder and harder since 2016. This latest epidemic was not only distinguished by its virulence, but also by its greater geographical dispersion.
Aid up to 100 million euros
The first cases appeared at the end of November in the north and south-west of France.
Then, a strong surge was observed at the beginning of March in the Great West, a region dense in poultry and, above all, strategic for the hatcheries and breeding animals it hosts.
The crisis will still leave traces for several months.
In the South-West, the reinstatement of animals took place at the end of March, but they have only just resumed in the Great West.
For the breeders concerned, this means several more weeks without income.
The government figures at 100 million euros the aid already paid (sanitary for slaughtering and economic for the loss of earnings linked to crawl spaces).
An envelope of 121 million is also planned for hatcheries, specifies the ministry.
The latter will wait several weeks before definitively quantifying the impact of this dark winter for poultry.
