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About 600,000 to 650,000
" poultry have been slaughtered in France since the first case of bird flu detected in a farm at the end of November, according to provisional figures from the Ministry of Agriculture, AFP learned on Friday.
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The ministry identifies 26 outbreaks of the virus in farms, mainly in the South-West, 15 cases in wildlife and 3 cases in backyard.
