The avian influenza (flu) epidemic hitting the country is unprecedented.
“Going to a farm where there is no more poultry, I can assure you that it is horrible.
Everything is dead.
It's a dead farm.
I've never known that in my life", testifies, moved, on
France 3 Normandy
, the boss of a farm located in the municipalities of Catenay and Blainville-Crevon, northeast of Rouen (Seine-Maritime) .
This new case of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 was announced on Saturday by the prefecture of Seine-Maritime.
The gendarmes came to cordon off the farm on Friday.
Nearly 8,000 poultry (chickens, guinea fowl, ducks, etc.) were slaughtered there “in accordance with the health rules applicable in such a situation and to prevent any risk of dissemination”.
“It was the crows and the pigeons” that brought the disease
Again, “everything happened very quickly.
Last Monday, around thirty dead hens were discovered, then 150 the next day.
The results of the samples fall on Thursday: avian flu, ”reports
Paris Normandie
.
5,000 eggs will be discarded, many chicks euthanized.
For the breeder, who works with his sons, "it was the crows and the pigeons" that brought the disease.
Other farms have since been shut down.
A security perimeter has been established within a radius of seven kilometers around Catenay, the movement of poultry is now prohibited.
This is the fourth “outbreak” detected in the Seine-Maritime department since February.
Around 1,160 outbreaks have been confirmed in France since the appearance of the virus in November 2021.
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