Bird Flu Hits Foie Gras Farmers as Lethal Strains Sweep Europe
Bloomberg 1/9/2021 Megan Durisin and Rudy Ruitenberg
(Bloomberg) More than 3.5 million birds across Europe, including the ducks used for France’s famed foie gras, have died from avian flu since October in the most far-reaching outbreak on the continent in four years.
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New cases of highly contagious strains of H5N8 and H5N1 have been found in at least a dozen nations, killing birds or forcing farms to cull poultry to keep the virus at bay, according to data from the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health. The casualties include hundreds of thousands of ducks in France as well as turkeys, chickens and egg-laying hens in Poland, the European Union’s top poultry producer.