MAINTENANCE – Honorary professor at the National Veterinary School of Alfort, Jeanne Brugère-Picoux looks back at the roots of this devastating epidemic for breeders.
50 millions. This is the number of poultry that have been slaughtered in farms infected with bird flu for more than a year in Europe. The continent is even dealing with the avian flu epidemic “the most devastating“Never observed on its soil, even indicated on Tuesday the health authorities.
The numbers give the spin. Between October 2021 and September 2022, 37 European countries were affected by bird flu, and nearly 2,500 outbreaks were detected on farms across the continent, according to a report by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Center European Union for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Union Reference Laboratory. In addition, contamination is accelerating as winter approaches, even though the epidemic has not abated since September.
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But how did we get here? And how can the European Union deal with this crisis? Jeanne Brugère-Picoux, honorary professor of the National Veterinary School of Alfort returns to this epidemic which today seems very difficult to contain.
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