2023-05-10 18:52:03
An outbreak of “highly pathogenic” avian flu was detected in a duck farm in the Landes, we learned this Wednesday from the prefecture, a week after other cases in the Gers, raising fears of a resumption of the outbreak. ‘epizootic.
This new case, detected in Bordères-et-Lamensans, about twenty kilometers south-east of Mont-de-Marsan, led the prefect of Landes to adopt health measures in a regulated perimeter of around sixty municipalities.
In a press release, the prefecture also announced the slaughter of the 8,600 ducks present on the farm concerned.
After several months of calm, this case of avian influenza occurs a few days after the detection of other outbreaks last week in the neighboring department of Gers, when France had downgraded the level of risk of influenza at the end of April. avian from “high” to “moderate”.
Six outbreaks confirmed by the Gers Chamber of Agriculture
The Gers Chamber of Agriculture reported on Wednesday “six confirmed outbreaks” in the west of this department bordering the Landes, where a regulated perimeter has also been set up.
“Farms located within 3 km of these outbreaks have been depopulated”, specifies the chamber of agriculture, which also counts five “strong clinical suspicions”.
“France confirmed, from May 4, the presence of the virus in several farms in the South-West”, confirms, for its part, the Ministry of Agriculture on its website. “The management measures are put in place to clean up the outbreaks that have been revealed and to maintain a high level of control of the risk associated with this disease. »
For the Confédération paysanne and the Modef, it is “again” an “explosive episode of avian flu”. These two farmers’ unions, defenders of an open-air farming model, criticize in a press release the “errors” of the ministry, such as the confinement of poultry in the areas concerned and the preventive slaughter of thousands of animals.
Between November 2022 and April 2023, France had been placed at a “high” level of risk of avian flu, before a sharp slowdown in the number of outbreaks in the spring. Between mid-March and the end of April, no outbreak had been identified in French farms.
In 2021-2022, the epizootic led to the slaughter of 22 million poultry in France.
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