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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
More than 95 percent of farms were covered to prevent the spread of bird flu.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The epidemic particularly affected farms in the southwestern part of the country, which are famous for foie gras production.<\/p>\n
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