{"id":228896,"date":"2025-10-21T08:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228896\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:28:07","slug":"france-raises-bird-flu-alert-level-to-high-after-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228896\/","title":{"rendered":"France raises bird flu alert level to &#8216;high&#8217; after new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PARIS (Reuters) -France has raised its bird flu alert level to &#8216;high&#8217; from &#8216;moderate&#8217;, requiring poultry farms nationwide to keep birds indoors as Europe faces a seasonal resurgence of the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, is a seasonal disease spread by migratory birds. It has led to the culling of tens of millions of poultry worldwide in recent years, disrupting production and raising fears of human transmission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This decree&#8230; was issued following evidence of infection among migratory wild birds in Europe, including France, and the confirmation of several outbreaks in poultry farms,&#8221; the agriculture ministry said in the government&#8217;s official journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So far, two bird flu outbreaks have been detected on poultry farms and three in backyard flocks, the ministry said in the decree. A first case had been detected in mid-October at a pheasant and partridge breeding farm in northern France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The change in status will take effect on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The upgrade to risk status in the seasonal assessment is kicking in earlier than previous years, taking effect in October compared to November last year and December in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Gus Trompiz and Sybille de La Hamaide, Editing by Benoit Van Overstraeten and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (Reuters) -France has raised its bird flu alert level to &#8216;high&#8217; from &#8216;moderate&#8217;, requiring poultry farms nationwide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5650,49,48,637,84,109247,90205,109246],"class_list":["post-228896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bird-flu","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-france","tag-health","tag-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza","tag-migratory-birds","tag-poultry-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}