“We are going to relaunch a major vaccination campaign from October 1st,” announces Marc Fesneau

“We are going to relaunch a major vaccination campaign because it has proven its effectiveness” and she will begin “from October 1st”declared Marc Fesneau, resigning Minister of Agriculture on franceinfo Tuesday August 20. There was “10 cases last year, 300 the year before”he recalls. This is a “important gesture for breeders” because there is “a lot of worry”of “economic and human dramas” behind this disease. An outbreak of bird flu was detected last week in a poultry farm in Ille-et-Vilaine. This is the first case of bird flu confirmed in France since January 16.

This vaccination campaign in farms will be “70% state support”, compared to 85% last year because vaccination is needed “can be supported by the sector” in the years to come. “We cannot constantly appeal to the State”insists the resigning Minister of Agriculture, who recalls that the past vaccination campaign has “cost 100 million euros”. “We are the only country to have taken charge of the losses of farmers and breeders to this extent.”