A new outbreak of bird flu has been detected in a breeding farm in Haute-Garonne, the department's prefecture announced in a press release on Friday, January 7, while cases have been increasing since the fall in France.
The Ministry of Agriculture identified 41 outbreaks of avian influenza in farming on Thursday, since the first case in the North at the end of November.
Most cases are now recorded in the South West.
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For its part, the prefecture of Haute-Garonne says in a press release that "around
fifty outbreaks have been confirmed in France
", testifying to "
active circulation of the virus
".
This new outbreak, located in a farmyard in the town of Escanecrabe, between Toulouse and Tarbes, is the first detected in Haute-Garonne during this episode of avian influenza.
The prefect of Haute-Garonne has set up a 3 km protection and 10 km surveillance zone around the outbreak "
to prevent any risk of dissemination
", said the prefecture on Friday.
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The Landes are the most affected department with twenty homes, while there are eight in the North, seven in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, five in the Gers and one in Vendée, the ministry told AFP on Thursday.
According to the Minister of Agriculture Julien Denormandie, who spoke Thursday to provide an update on the situation of the epizootic, the situation is better than last winter, when it was at the origin of nearly 500 outbreaks in breeding leading to the slaughter of more than three million poultry, mainly ducks.
The ministry estimated on December 31 that between 600,000 and 650,000 poultry had been slaughtered since the start of the epizootic.
