An outbreak of remarkably pathogenic avian influenza was verified on Wednesday 31 August in a laying hen farm in the town of Landujan, Ille-et-Vilaine. The 3,500 chickens have been eliminated. There are now eight instances, such as 3 in
Brittany, on farms in the course of the country. This reappearance of the virus, given that the finish of July, when once more raises concern between farmers.
“We have no morals. It is a property of cards that carries on to collapse. “reacts Sylvie Colas, poultry farmer in the Gers. “We were informed that the virus was long gone and that we see two outbreaks surface in Morbihan and other areas. I am extremely concerned “, provides Christian Drouin, a breeder in Essarts-en-Bocage, in the Vendée. In March, his operation was struck by the H5N1 avian flu virus and experienced to, with the indicates at his disposal, kill 18,000 chickens. A hard interval to stay.
Excess fat liver
From November 2021 to May well 2022, France endured an avian flu epizootic on an unprecedented scale. The virus very first raged in the north, prior to spreading to the southwestern area, the epicenter of duck farming and foie gras generation. Then, at the finish of February, the H5N1 virus hit the Vendée and unfold promptly. It also spread to the Atlantic Loire and Maine and Loire. To try out to stem the spread, substantial slaughterings had been made the decision, in specific towards Brittany, the initially French poultry and egg generation space.
At the stop of July, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that France had regained a negligible chance standing for avian flu. The govt justified the final decision by pointing out the absence of referenced circumstances on the farm because Could 17 and deemed the crisis to be more than. On this event he took stock of the health catastrophe and quantified the number of outbreaks at 1,378 and the amount of chickens killed in 16 million, even if pros estimate it at 19 million or even 20 million.
“Why have we waited so very long to converse about vaccination? – Sylvie Colas, poultry farmer in the Gers
But the virus was already affecting the so-named “indigenous” fauna of the coasts. Initially in the coastal departments of Hauts-de-France (Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Somme) generally in gulls (gulls, gulls and terns), then these mortalities appeared in June on the coasts of Normandy (Seine-Maritime, Calvados , Manche) to be noticed in July on the coasts of Brittany (Côtes-d’Armor) and now in Loire-Atlantique and Charente-Maritime. In July, the farms ended up also affected, in the English Channel, the Somme, the Morbihan, the Ain and then in the Ille-et-Vilaine, producing the euthanasia of the influenced turkeys, laying hens or ducks.
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