Document type : article published in Le Monde
Author: Le Monde, with AFP
Preview: A first case of avian influenza has been detected in France, in a pet shop located in Haute-Corse, the Minister of Agriculture and Food, Julien Denormandie, announced on the evening of Monday 16 November. "We learned about it early this afternoon", said Mr Denormandie in an interview for Public Sénat-LCP-Le Figaro.
"The case was identified in the pet shop section of a garden centre near Bastia, following the observation of abnormal deaths among the poultry kept there," the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food announced in a simultaneous press release. This discovery led to the immediate "euthanasia of a farm of about 200 to 300 hens", Denormandie said.
Following this case, the minister "held a full cross-departmental meeting of the Ministry and and the National Reference Laboratory, deciding to place the entire national mainland under a high risk alert as of 17 November 2020", the press release states.
