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Avian flu: a first source of contamination detected in the Creuse

2023-01-11T18:44:13.909Z


This is the first time that this department has been affected since the start of the avian influenza epidemic. The prefecture has set up a surveillance zone.


Le Figaro Bordeaux

The bird flu epidemic is not over.

It rages in several departments of New Aquitaine and Occitanie.

Cases have also just been detected in Creuse, for the first time in this department since the start of the epidemic in 2015.

"

An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has just been confirmed on January 9, 2023 in a barnyard in the town of Flayat in Creuse

", writes the prefecture of Corrèze in a press release.

To avoid any risk of spreading the virus to other farms

”, the prefect has set up a surveillance zone in the surrounding municipalities, within a radius of 10 kilometers.

In these perimeters, all places where poultry and captive birds are kept are subject to specific requirements.

»

A preventive action plan in the South West

If the consumption of products made from infected poultry does not present any risk, the situation is of particular concern to farmers.

"

For individuals with backyards, in order to limit the spread of the virus, which can have significant economic and food sovereignty consequences, the necessary vigilance is reminded as to the sheltering of all birds, a measure already in force throughout France since November 11,

"say the state services in the department.

Between the end of December and the beginning of January, several cases of avian flu were also detected further south, in five farms in the Gers, leading to the establishment of a regulated zone as far as the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

The “

Adour Plan

” was put in place as a preventive measure, requiring that between December 15 and January 15, 68 municipalities in the Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Gers be

“emptied”

or almost of their poultry.

An attempt to avoid the millions of slaughters carried out during the last epizootic.

Source: lefigaro

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