A duck farm in France.
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MEIGNEUX ROMUALD / SIPA
More than 200,000 ducks have already been slaughtered in France to stem the spread of avian flu in farms and around 400,000 are in the process of being so, we learned from the Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday.
Some 100,000 ducks were slaughtered inside the identified sources of contamination, mainly in the South-West, while 104,000 were subjected to preventive slaughter around these centers, the head of the services told AFP. veterinarians and Deputy Director General of Food Loïc Evain.
"There remain about 400,000 to be slaughtered" preventively, a "number likely to change.
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