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 on Tuesday widened an area in which mass culling of ducks is to take place as new cases of bird flu were confirmed in the southwest, the country's main foie gras producing region.

Paris: France has stepped up its bird flu risk assessment to 'high' from 'moderate', it said on Friday in a decree that will trigger reinforced security measures around poultry farms.

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 ...

The H5N8 virus is an especially aggressive strain of avian flu, and its appearance among birds in southwestern France forced producers to act quickly in order to protect other flocks. Foie gras is ...

This is perhaps the first time that a European Union farm has got the bird-flu infection. Nearly 80% of the 11,000 birds at the farm have died in the past week, and the remaining 20% have been culled.

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.

PARIS, France - France raised the risk level of bird flu to 'high' from 'moderate' on Tuesday after new cases of the disease were detected, forcing poultry farms to keep birds indoors to stem the ...

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 ...

Google map tracks avian fluAvian flu zips around the globe on the wings of birds and bugs in a new interactive Google Earth map that may help experts study the deadly virus, Boulder researchers ...