France Give News Of First Bird Flue Epidemic In 2007

France, the EU’s better agronomics producer, appear an beginning of the baleful H5N1 bird flu virus in chickens on Wednesday, its aboriginal back 2007.A case of aerial affliction has been accepted in a backyard in Dordogne,” the acreage admiral said.when it was detected in agrarian swans, abstracts from the World Organisation for Animal Bloom (OIE) showed.
Ministers asked France's bloom and assurance bureau to appraise the strain's amount of crisis to humans, Agronomics Minister Stephane Le Foll told reporters, insisting there was no accident of manual by bistro food. The beginning comes just afore appeal for foie gras, produced from avoid or goose liver, peaks over the anniversary anniversary season, but admiral play down any impact.
This virus has no aftereffect as far as arresting banty meat or annihilation that comes from banty articles is anxious - I am cerebration decidedly about foie gras back we are abutting times of top consumption," Le Foll told reporters.

Sales of French foie gras were account about 2 billion euros ($2.1 billion) at the broad akin endure year. Several countries including Japan, Egypt and Hong Kong banned French banty afterward accomplished outbreaks of H5N1. Japan is the better importer of French foie gras. It is the aboriginal case of H5N1 appear in the EU back outbreaks in Bulgaria and Romania detected in March.
A acreage admiral official said a ecology area of up to a 10 kilometre (6.2 miles) ambit had been set up about the site, encompassing several banty farms. An anniversary ecology analysis showed animals at two banty farms in the arena had developed bird flu antibodies after assuming analytic signs of the disease. Tests were beneath way to see whether these were H5N1 ones, he said.
Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu aboriginal adulterated bodies in 1997 during a banty beginning in Hong Kong. Back its re-emergence in 2003 and 2004, H5N1 has advance from Asia to Europe and Africa, causing millions of banty infections, several hundred animal cases and abounding animal deaths.
However, the admiral official said aboriginal break showed the ache begin in France was altered from the Asian one. France's better banty ambassador LDC absolved the appulse for the sector.
"Avian flu is allotment of our business. This is alone one backyard and 30 poultry, and France is actual able-bodied organised," LDC Chief Executive Denis Lambert told reporters.