19.06.2017

France last month detected a case of low-pathogenic H7 avian influenza at a farm in the center of the country in the rural district of Saulnay. The farm contains 4,980 ducks and pheasants,
All the birds on the farm were slaughtered.
Duck farmers in France's southwest, the main production region for liver pate speciality foie gras, resumed rearing last week after a six-week suspension ordered as part of measures to stamp out the more virulent H5N8 virus.