2024-01-04 11:46:00
The outbreak was confirmed on January 2 on a farm in Notre-Dame-de-Riez, in the northwest of the department.
On December 5, the risk level at the national level was raised from “moderate” to “high”, its maximum level, forcing free-range breeders to confine their poultry.
“An operation to depopulate the 8,700 ducks present on the farm affected by the avian influenza outbreak was carried out,” according to the Vendée prefecture.
To prevent the risk of the virus spreading to other farms, the prefect of Vendée issued an order defining regulated protection and surveillance zones, respectively set up within a radius of 3 and 10 km around the contaminated establishment. .
In these areas, “the movements of poultry and other captive birds” are prohibited, except for exemptions, and self-inspections may be imposed by the prefecture.
The ducks from the farm concerned “had all been vaccinated against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) last November, in accordance with regulations”specifies the prefecture in its press release, which notes that “vaccination does not completely eliminate the risk of infection of poultry in the event of introduction of the virus into the farm”.
Vaccination has been compulsory since October 1 in farms with more than 250 ducks, excluding breeding ducks.
Since the end of November, several outbreaks of avian flu have been detected on poultry farms in Morbihan and the Somme. An outbreak was detected in the Nord department in December.
France was affected by avian flu from 2015 to 2017, then almost continuously since the end of 2020. More than thirty million poultry have had to be slaughtered since the summer of 2021 in the country.
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