Avian influenza – LPAI H5N1, H5N5, OIE – France

DATE: March 31, 2018

LOCATION: Notre Dame du Pe, Notre Dame du Pe, Sarthe

DETAILS: Suspicion based on a very light symptomatology (the laying phase did not start; prostration) in breeding turkeys ready for laying. The reference national laboratory confirmed the presence of low pathogenic H5N1 virus on March 27. All the animals were killed and destroyed on March 27 and 28.

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