France increases the risk of bird flu to 'average'

France said in a decision published in the official Gazette on Tuesday, that it increased the level of the risk of his bird flu to “average” from “weak”, a step that would improve the safety measures on poultry farmers. Authorities said that the change of risk level is linked to the large number of outbreaks of the highly infected bird flu in several neighboring countries, increasing the possibility of transporting migratory birds to the virus as they go through France. An increasing number of European countries, including Germany, monitored the outbreak of the virus, which in previous cases eliminated millions of poultry. France has recorded four cases of bird flu on farms since the summer and launched a second vaccination campaign between the Boers’ duck at the beginning of the month after a successful first round of vaccination last year. Bird flu has spread in context, the Australian government said last Sunday that it would spend an extra $ 95 million ($ 64.13 million) to prevent a deadly bird flu strain from spreading between birds and mammals worldwide, but it has not reached Australia yet. The Oceanus region is the last region in the world without sub -breed 2.3.4.4b of the H5N1 virus that causes bird flu, causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of birds and tens of thousands of mammals since its prevalence in Asia, Europe and Africa in 2020, which led to the beaches full of dead animals and the impact of the agricultural sector. Julie Collins, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forests, said the new financing be added to more than a billion Australian dollar spent to improve biological safety in the country. “This breed of bird flu is a real and major threat to the Australian agricultural sector,” Collins added in a statement. The region is still somewhat protected by the geographical location, as it is far from the paths of the large bird migration that spreads infection, such as geese, but the virus is soon as soon as it reached Indonesia in 2022 and the frozen Antarctica last year. Scientists and officials say there is a greater danger to the arrival of the disease in Australia, which is transferred to the beaches by the smaller migratory birds during the spring in the Southern Hemisphere, from September to November.