The prefecture of Oise announced on February 22 that it had placed nearly a quarter of the communes of the department under surveillance, within the framework of a Temporary Control Zone (ZCT)after the detection of a case of avian influenza on a black-headed gull, found dead in Canada’s lake, in Beauvais.
The list of municipalities concerned is to be found online
. Inside this area, the prefecture says, “various measures are deployed to protect poultry farms from potential contamination by wildlife” : the sheltering of farmed birds, clinical monitoring and laboratory analyzes if necessary, as well as the adaptation of hunting activities (decoys of waterfowl and game birds). No preventive culling of wild birds will take place.
This ZCT must last 21 days. The prefecture encourages the public to do not approach or feed wild birds. The whole public must avoid frequenting wet areas (edges of ponds, ponds and rivers) where the wild birds roam, “including in their absence, due to the very likely presence of the virus in droppings and soiled soil“.
