Earlier this month, France began Europe’s only mass-vaccination campaign against avian influenza. The country plans to vaccinate roughly 64 million ducks at 2,700 farms over the next year as an ...

The march of avian influenza into domestic stocks can only strengthen the public's already hightened fears over the safety of the bloc's poultry. Poultry consumption has plunged in many EU member ...

PARIS – France will lift a restriction zone on Thursday it imposed late last year in the country's southwest to stop the spread of a bird flu virus that prompted trade restrictions on French ...

France has discovered two new outbreaks of highly pathogenic bird flu including one in the Gers region in southwest France, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday, bringing to four the number ...

PARIS (Reuters) -France has detected bird flu on a duck farm in the southwest of the country, the farm ministry said on Friday, marking a return of the disease to the foie gras production region ...

France had recorded 12 farm outbreaks of the disease, commonly called bird flu, since early August, as well as three cases among backyard poultry, the ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday.

In France, 40% of the value produced by the poultry sector comes from exports, even though half the poultry meat consumed is imported. Only birds raised in French zoos are vaccinated.