2023-06-05 13:13:13
The vaccination campaign against avian flu should start during the month of October, said Monday, June 5, the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, during a trip to Gironde. “I repeat, in October we will be able to vaccinate”he declared to the press, on the sidelines of a meeting with representatives of the Bordeaux vineyards in Salleboeuf, about twenty kilometers east of Bordeaux.
At the end of May, the chambers of agriculture of four departments of the South-West as well as the interprofessions of foie gras and lean poultry in the region had demanded “deployment” you vaccine “in the heart of summer” to ensure the “survival” local duck and poultry farms.
“I fully understand despair. If we can save a little time we will, but say today, as before for the vaccine against [le] Covid-19, that we can shorten the calendars is not serious”justified Mr. Fesneau, listing the processes of validation, manufacture, deployment and storage of the vaccine to be put in place before launching the campaign “in good order”.
81 infected farms
After several years of successive crises caused by avian flu, the virus has been circulating again since the beginning of May in Gers, Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques, with 81 infected farms, more than half of them in Gers, according to the count of the authorities at the end of May.
“Obviously we have passed the peak (…) of this episode”estimated on Monday the Minister of Agriculture, “because we have taken very strong measures”. Two vaccines tested in France have already proven “very effective” on ducks bred for foie gras, the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses) reported on May 25, paving the way for a national vaccination campaign “in the fall”according to the first estimates of the ministry.
During the previous epizootic in 2022-2023, six million poultry were slaughtered in France according to the ministry, after 22 million in 2021-2022.
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