A placard reading Sanitary police. Access forbidden has been placed outside a house where an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in chickens, on 25 November 2015 in Biras. [Photo: AFP, Mehdi Fedouach]
After being overwhelmed with outbreak after outbreak of avian influenza in the last 2 months, France is slowly getting to grips with the situation. The country’s veterinarian and government bodies were slow to respond at first, but now discuss stringent measures to tackle the devastating disease.
2 months into the worst avian influenza crisis ever in France, the country takes what it calls radical steps to stop the disease in its tracks. The plan is to halt the restocking of duck and geese far
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