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In the Landes region of France, famous for the production of foie gras, an epidemic of bird flu was discovered on a farm.
According to French media, based on observations made on December 17 at a goose farm in the town of Hastingsues, in the southwestern part of the country, the birds on the farm were exterminated the next day, without waiting for laboratory results.
With the detection of highly contagious bird flu of the H5N1 type in the results of the animal examination yesterday, a protection zone with a diameter of 3 kilometers and a observation zone with a diameter of 10 kilometers was created around the farm in question.
In France in early November the bird flu alert situation was raised to a high level and poultry farms were quarantined to prevent the epidemic from spreading.
More than 95 percent of farms were covered to prevent the spread of bird flu.
In the country where more than 500 bird flu epidemics were detected that lasted from November to May last year, 3.5 million birds were destroyed.
The epidemic particularly affected farms in the southwestern part of the country, which are famous for foie gras production.
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