Despite the crawl space imposed last April, a second outbreak of bird flu was identified in the Dordogne in a duck farm. All the animals are going to be slaughtered.
A new outbreak of avian flu has been discovered in the Dordogne, the Prefecture announced on Monday. This is a duck farm located in the town of La Dornac, not far from the first outbreak reported on July 19.
This new case was detected during health checks set up within a radius of 10 km around the farm raising more than 4,000 chickens. “The slaughter of animals from this incident is underway,” said the Prefecture without specifying the number of palmipeds concerned.
For now, there is nothing to say which farm has contaminated the other. An investigation was therefore launched to determine the precise nature of the epidemiological link between these two outbreaks. It will also make it possible to know if the virus was still present on the farm, if it was transmitted to the animals by a migratory bird or brought by the group of ducklings.
Systematic veterinary checks
In addition to the slaughter of livestock, the detection of this new sporadic outbreak leads to the establishment of a regulated perimeter: a protection zone of 3 km around the incriminated farm as well as a surveillance zone of 10 km . In addition, all holders (individuals and professionals) of palmipeds will be subject to systematic veterinary surveillance.
It’s the 3th farm contaminated by avian influenza – two in Dordogne and one in Aveyron – two months after the crawl space set up to clean up farms in 18 departments in the South-West. For a month, a thousand farms remained empty before being thoroughly disinfected. The farms were then gradually repopulated from mid-May under drastic biosanitary conditions. But the H5N1 virus persists. The eradication of avian influenza promises to be more difficult than previously thought.
Since last November, 80 cases of avian influenza have been reported in 8 departments in the South-West. An unprecedented epidemic in France.
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