02.12.2016

France has detected a case of HPAI H5N8 on a duck farm in the southwest (France has detected a case of HPAI H5N8 on a duck farm in the southwest (Almayrac).
The outbreak follows a case of H5N8 confirmed among wild ducks in northern France this week and is the latest of a series of outbreaks in Europe. The virus killed 2,000 out of a flock of 5,000 ducks on a farm in the Tarn region, and the remaining birds are to be culled as part of preventative measures. The new case means France will not be able to regain its international status as being free of highly pathogenic avian influenza.