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Updated at 19 h 44.

Three duck farms in the Gers, welcoming a total of 3,890 ducks were affected by avian flu, said Friday in Auch the department prefect, Pierre Ory.

The "outbreaks" on three farms in the Gers, one spot 690 ducks and two others who account for each 1,600, has he said at a press conference, adding that a "firm response" was was decided to prevent the spread of the disease.

" Ducks ready to gorge were transported in the three affected farms in the Gers and, according to the prefect, the same supplier (Tarn)" is causing infections in the Hautes-Pyrenees, Lot-et Garonne and the Gers. A protection zone of three kilometers, and seven additional kilometers supervision is in place around the farms of the Gers. But "these cases are confined in homes, allowing to contain ," he said. The virus is "h autement pathogenic and withering in its spread, resulting in an extremely high mortality rate of 50% within 72 hours ," he said.  

18,000 ducks were slaughtered in the Tarn, in the wake of the discovery of an outbreak of avian flu, and the virus spreads in the departments of Gers, Lot-et-Garonne and Hautes-Pyrénées, where cases was detected, did was learned from the prefecture.

" All the animals were slaughtered or 18,000" in total, in two separate farms in the town of Almayrac, said the prefect of the Tarn, Jean-Michel Mougard, at a press conference. A case was also detected in the Hautes-Pyrénées, in the prefecture of this department. A press conference of the Gers Prefecture is scheduled at 17:00. " We see some viral growth" , particularly in the Gers, the Hautes-Pyrénées and Lot-et-Garonne, said the prefect of the Tarn.

" There are suspected, samples are underway" , he said. "Indeed, a day before the findings of the first dead duck in the second breeding Almayrac, a convoy left with ducks to these departments ," said the Prefect. " The goal is to absolutely stop the spread of the virus. Other animals may be euthanized, including preventively if there is suspicion. For now, we freeze movement and proceed to use disinfection. animals must be confined in farms rigorously because we perceive a certain viral progression , "he said.

" This pathogen virus is extremely dangerous because mortality intervenes quickly. This is the first time that we see this degree of virulence. Breeders will be a census to be compensated since mid-January ," he said the prefect of the Tarn.