LINK France Steps Up Duck Cull As Bird Flu Hits Foie Gras Farms
(Wow. Bird flu on top of the existing pandemic)
French authorities plan to expand their culls of ducks reared for the controversial delicacy foie gras as an outbreak of bird flu rips through the southwest of the country, a producers' federation said Thursday.
The highly pathogenic H5N8 virus was first detected in a bird in a pet shop on the Mediterranean island of Corsica in November before spreading to duck farms on the mainland in December.
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