France confirms second avian influenza outbreak on farm
A case of highly pathogenic bird flu has been detected at a second farm in the Landes region in southwest France.
Reuters reports that cases of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu continue to spread across Europe.
France’s most recent outbreak occurred in the Saint-Geours-de-Maremne district of the Landes region where a first farm case of highly pathogenic bird flu was confirmed earlier this week.
As in the previous outbreak, the authorities had set up a security zone around the farm, the local province said in a statement late on Wednesday 9 December.
