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Monday, April 4, 2022
France facing worst bird flu outbreak in history
France is managing its worst bird flu outbreak in history as the country detects a rebound in outbreaks in its major poultry producing regions, Reuters reported.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
France authorises select farmers to asphyxiate poultry flocks to stop bird flu
Julien Denormandie, the French Agriculture Minister, said the government has authorised some farmers to to asphyxiate their poultry flocks to stop the spread of bird flu in the country, Reuters reported.
Monday, March 14, 2022
France to cull several million poultry birds due to bird flu
France's Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood, and Forestry is set to slaughter several million poultry in a second mass cull as it tries to contain a bird flu outbreak, Reuters reported.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
France to kill 2.5 million poultry due to bird flu
The French farming ministry has announced that 2.5 million birds will be culled to prevent the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza southwest of the country, Reuters reported.
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
More than 600,000 poultry birds culled in France to control bird flu outbreak
France has culled 600,000 to 650,000 chickens, ducks and other poultry over the past month, officials said on December 31 last year, in a race to contain a bird flu virus threatening to become the fourth major outbreak in the country since ...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
New bird flu cluster discovered in northern France
Local authorities in northern France said on December 6 a new bird flu cluster had been detected over the weekend in the region, adding that two additional possible bird flu cases in poultry farms were currently under investigation.
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Northern France detects highly pathogenic bird flu on poultry farm
France has detected highly pathogenic bird flu on a poultry farm in the north of the country, the farm ministry said last week, Reuters reported.
Monday, March 22, 2021
France to allow poultry farms affected by bird flu to resume production
France's Ministry of Agriculture and Food will allow poultry farms southwest of the country that have been affected by highly pathogenic bird flu to resume production following a sharp drop in new cases, Reuters reported.
Monday, January 11, 2021
France extends mass poultry culls in the Landes to contain bird flu
Julien Denormandie, the French Agriculture and Food Minister, said France will extend mass poultry culls to contain the spread of bird flu at the Landes, southwest of the country where most duck farms are concentrated, Reuters reported.
Thursday, January 7, 2021
China bans poultry imports from France due to bird flu
China's General Administration of Customs said the country has suspended poultry imports from France after multiple highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu cases were detected there, Reuters reported.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
600,000 poultry to be culled in France to prevent bird flu spread
The French Ministry of Agriculture and Foods said it is set to cull 600,000 poultry to prevent the spread of bird flu among duck flocks southwest of the country, Reuters reported.
Friday, December 11, 2020
France confirms second farm bird flu outbreak
France has confirmed a second highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak at a farm in the Saint-Geours-de-Maremne district, the Landes region in southwest France, following the first confirmed farm bird flu outbreak in the same region earlier this ...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
France confirms first H5N8 bird flu farm outbreak this year
The French Ministry of Agriculture and Food has confirmed the country's first farm outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus at a duck farm in Benesse-Maremne municipality, southwest of the country, Reuters reported.
Monday, November 9, 2020
Half of France on high alert for bird flu
The French government announced that about half of France's administrative departments will be categorised as high alert for bird flu, with the rest of the country on medium alert after cases of the virus was reported in west Europe, Reuter ...
Friday, November 6, 2020
Half of France on high alert for bird flu
France is placing about half of the country on high alert for bird flu after cases of the disease were reported in western Europe since October, the government said in a decree published in its official journal, Reuters reported.

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