Europe forced into mass slaughter

Specialists are worried, as 47 million poultry have been slaughtered this year in Europe. Nearly 2,500 foci of avian flu contamination have been detected in one year. Cases have been reported in southern Portugal, northern Norway and as far east as Ukraine. 37 countries are concerned. The virus spread particularly during the summer, when normally, at this time, the epidemic is rather supposed to decline.

The authorities are also monitoring transmissions to other mammals, as many cases have been detected in foxes, seals or dolphins. Contamination to humans remains very rare, but, Monday evening October 3, Spain indicated that a person had been infected in mid-September in the center of the country, explains the journalist from France Télévisions, Julien Gasparutto , from Brussels.