Record 16m Birds Culled In France Flu Outbreak – Official
May 3, 2022
2:20 am
A record 16 million chickens, ducks and other poultry have been culled in France since November 2021 in one of the most drastic bird flu outbreaks in many years, the agriculture ministry disclosed on Monday.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that the European country has been hit by several epidemics since 2015 but they have mainly been restricted to the southwest, where ducks are bred for the lucrative foie gras liver pate industry.
However, for the first time this winter, wild birds which are reportedly migrating back from the south contaminated farmed poultry, sparking a second wave of infections …
