• Three cases were detected in three different farms in the Dordogne, the analyzes confirmed that it was avian flu in recent days.

  • Preventive culling will be carried out in the farms concerned.

  • Until then the Dordogne was spared by this wave of the epizootic which affected the South West of France and many European countries.

The Dordogne is no longer spared by the severe wave of avian flu that raged in France.

Three cases have been detected in Dordogne, the prefecture said in a statement on Sunday.

“The highly pathogenic avian influenza epizootic (…) has now been identified in the Dordogne.

Three strong suspicions were confirmed in the Dordogne on April 1 and 2 by positive analyzes for the IA-H5 and IA-H7 viruses”, specifies the prefecture.

Two farms in the town of Val de Louyre and Caudeau are concerned, “one of 19,000 ducks having presented clinical signs, the other of 22,000 ducks aged 21 days”.

The third case was detected in Saint-Géniès, north of Sarlat, in a farm of 670 geese and 350 goslings.

Preventive fellings

In these three sites, "preventive slaughter sites have been set up", indicates the prefecture.

A fourth farm, also located in the town of Val de Louyre and Caudeau, was subject to preventive depopulation after a “very high mortality” of its meat poultry was observed there.

The 2021-2022 avian flu epizootic is the most severe to have affected France, with more than 1,100 outbreaks in breeding and more than ten million poultry slaughtered, a record.

The west of France, and especially the Vendée department (500 households as of March 31), is particularly affected.

More than the Southwest, a region regularly affected since 2015 by this virus and in particular its many duck farms intended for the production of foie gras.

This virus exclusively affects birds.

It circulates in wild fauna and manifests itself during migrations.

A total of 34 European countries have been affected this year.

Northern Italy was particularly affected, with 18 million farmed poultry culled.

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