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Thursday, October 30, 2025
France elevates bird flu alert to 'high' following new outbreaks
France has upgraded its bird flu alert from 'moderate' to 'high', mandating poultry farms across the country to keep birds indoors amid a seasonal resurgence of the disease in Europe.
Friday, March 28, 2025
France lifts poultry restrictions as bird flu risk declines
France has announced that poultry flocks will be allowed outdoors again following a decrease in bird flu infections.
Friday, January 3, 2025
Bird flu cases confirmed in farms in France's northwestern Normandy
France's agriculture ministry said authorities confirmed new cases of avian influenza or HPAI, commonly known as bird flu, on two farms in the northwestern Normandy region.
Monday, December 23, 2024
France declares bird flu-free status amid continued vigilance
France has announced its status as free from highly pathogenic avian influenza following more than a month without new outbreaks, according to its agriculture ministry.
Monday, October 21, 2024
France raises bird flu risk level to moderate
France has raised its bird flu risk level from "negligible" to "moderate," according to a decree published in the official journal, Reuters reported.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Philippines temporarily bans poultry imports from France amid bird flu case
The Philippines' Department of Agriculture (DA) has issued a temporary ban on the importation of poultry and related products from France following the confirmation of a bird flu case, The Philippine Star reported.
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Hong Kong, China, stops poultry imports from areas in France, Poland, and US over bird flu concerns
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in Hong Kong, China, has ordered the suspension of the import of poultry meat and products, including poultry eggs, from Morbihan, France; Lubuskie, Poland; a ...
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Philippines bans poultry imports from Belgium, France due to bird flu
In response to recent bird flu outbreaks in Belgium and France, the Philippines' Department of Agriculture declared an indefinite ban on imports of poultry and related products from both countries, including wild birds, The Star reported.
Thursday, November 30, 2023
France reports highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak in turkey farm
France has identified an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu virus on a turkey farm northwest of the country, according to the country’s agriculture ministry, Reuters reported.
Monday, August 7, 2023
Ceva withdraws legal challenge concerning supply of bird flu vaccine to France
French animal health group Ceva has withdrawn a legal challenge over a tender to supply France with a bird flu vaccine in which Ceva lost out to German company Boehringer Ingelheim.
Monday, May 29, 2023
France set to start bird flu vaccination programme in autumn
France confirmed its aim to launch a vaccination programme against bird flu in the autumn after results from a series of tests on the vaccination of ducks showed "satisfactory effectiveness", the farm ministry said.
Monday, May 15, 2023
France steps up measures against bird flu in country's south west
France has reinforced sanitary measures to curb a wave of bird flu cases on duck farms in its south-west region after a recent lull in outbreaks, the French Agriculture Ministry said on May 12.
Monday, November 14, 2022
France orders poultry farms to keep birds indoors following spread of bird flu
The French Ministry of Agriculture and Food has ordered poultry farms to keep their birds indoors to stop the spread of highly pathogenic bird flu in the country, The Business Times reported.
Friday, September 9, 2022
New bird flu outbreak in France raises concerns of year-round risk
An unseasonal wave of bird flu at the French Atlantic coast this summer has affected wild birds, alarming conservationists and poultry farmers as this could mean the virus may have become a year-round risk and endemic to French wildlife, Re ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
France culls more than 13 million poultry due to bird flu
An official from the Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood, and Forestry of France said the government has culled more than 13 million poultry since end-November 2021 to stop the spread of bird flu in the country, Reuters reported.

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