Workers wearing masks and protective clothes gassed thousands of ducks in southwest France on Friday, in a massive cull that was ordered in an attempt to prevent a spread of the H5N8 bird flu virus.
France, which has the largest poultry flock in the European Union, has reported 95 outbreaks of the virus this time around.Most of the cull is taking place in and around the Gers area of southwest France, where geese and ducks are reared in vast numbers to make the 'foie gras' duck liver delicacy.Some 800,000 of the birds out of a population of around 18 million in the whole of the southwest, are due to be killed in the coming week.(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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France, which has the largest poultry flock in the European Union, has reported 95 outbreaks of the virus this time around.Most of the cull is taking place in and around the Gers area of southwest France, where geese and ducks are reared in vast numbers to make the 'foie gras' duck liver delicacy.Some 800,000 of the birds out of a population of around 18 million in the whole of the southwest, are due to be killed in the coming week.(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)