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Limousin February 2016 - Issue #76
Government shuts down poultry farms As the bird flu crisis worsens and more countries place bans on French poultry imports, the government has forced duck and goose farms across south-west France to close. The move will cost the industry hundreds of millions. farm near Biras in November, the virus quickly spread across the region and in December it reached the Limousin when a farm in northern Haute-Vienne revealed that it was suffering from a “highly pathogenic” case. All 240 of the poultry on the farm were destroyed and a disinfection plan was put into place for the entire premises. In response to the growing crisis, the government created a “restriction zone”, within which the movement of poultry - the most common way for the virus to be spread - was restricted. Authorities also began implementing strict cleaning and disinfection programmes for the premises and equipment of all poultry farms. The new moves go one step further, however, and will
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s the country battles against the recent outbreak of bird flu that has swept across south-west France, poultry producers in the Limousin have been ordered to halt duck and goose production. The Ministry of Agriculture said farmers would be allowed to continue raising birds they already own, but may not take on new ducklings and goslings until farms are totally cleaned and disinfected. The order concerns all the departments of Aquitaine and Midi-Pyrénées, as well as the Haute-Vienne and Corrèze. The Creuse department remains unaffected. After the first case was reported at a Dordogne
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