24.12.2015

In total, to date, 63 of highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in poultry were detected in 6 southwestern departments of France. 5 different types of avian influenza are involved in the different outbreaks in France: HPAI H5N1, H5N2 and H5N9 and LPAI H5N2 and H5N3.
In the Dordogne, 12 HPAI outbreaks in poultry have been detected; In the Landes, 27 outbreaks; High-Vienna, 1 outbreak (H5N1); in Gers, 10 outbreaks; in The Atlantic Pyrenees, 10 outbreaks; in The Hautes-Pyrenees, 3 outbreaks.
China and Japan, the world’s largest importers of foie gras, have restricted the supplies of poultry products, birds, animals and eggs from the whole of France after the information on the outbreak was revealed.