PARIS (Reuters) – France has detected the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus on a duck farm in southwest of the country, the farm ministry said on Friday.
The case is the first in a current wave of the disease to affect the southwest that is home to most of France’s foie gras pate production and where a previous bird flu wave last winter decimated duck flocks.
(Reporting by Gus Trompiz; editing by John Stonestreet)
