A sad record!
Avian flu caused the death of 15 million poultry in France.
Some were directly affected by the disease, others slaughtered preventively.
Unheard of, both by the number of poultry affected and by the geographical extent of the phenomenon, which this year reached regions hitherto spared by the virus - it is no longer confined to the south-west -.
The H5N1 strain, which is rampant this year according to the National Food Safety Agency (Anses), has not only affected ducks, but all poultry: chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl...
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According to the latest tally from the Ministry of Agriculture, there have been a total of 1,348 outbreaks of bird flu in the country.
Nearly two-thirds of the cases were observed in the Pays de la Loire, the second largest poultry-producing region in France behind Brittany, not to mention the neighboring Deux-Sèvres.
The Vendée was particularly affected, with 532 households, but the increase has strongly…
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