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French Region Easing Bird Flu Rules
Monday April 10, 2006
BOURG-EN-BRESSE, France (AP) - Poultry from some areas of France's bird-flu stricken Ain region can come out of confinement within two weeks, the region's top official announced Monday. Poultry farms outside of the southeast region's high-security protection zone will be eligible to let their free-range fowl roam again within 10 days to two weeks, Ain prefect Michel Fuzeau said.
"The confinement of poultry remains the rule. Today, we are talking about measures aimed at adapting to the health situation," Fuzeau told a news conference.
Between 200 and 300 farms will be eligible for the relaxed measures, to be decided on a case-by-case basis, he said.
Tight security measures will remain in place on the 140 farms inside the protection zone - established in February after two wild ducks were found to have the H5N1 bird flu strain.
A commercial turkey farm was infected at the time - the first commercial outlet in the 25-member EU to be contaminated by the deadly virus. A commercial farm in Germany has since been infected.
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0406/317971.html
Monday April 10, 2006
BOURG-EN-BRESSE, France (AP) - Poultry from some areas of France's bird-flu stricken Ain region can come out of confinement within two weeks, the region's top official announced Monday. Poultry farms outside of the southeast region's high-security protection zone will be eligible to let their free-range fowl roam again within 10 days to two weeks, Ain prefect Michel Fuzeau said.
"The confinement of poultry remains the rule. Today, we are talking about measures aimed at adapting to the health situation," Fuzeau told a news conference.
Between 200 and 300 farms will be eligible for the relaxed measures, to be decided on a case-by-case basis, he said.
Tight security measures will remain in place on the 140 farms inside the protection zone - established in February after two wild ducks were found to have the H5N1 bird flu strain.
A commercial turkey farm was infected at the time - the first commercial outlet in the 25-member EU to be contaminated by the deadly virus. A commercial farm in Germany has since been infected.
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0406/317971.html