FRANCE – NEWCASTLE DISEASE
August 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLA FRENCH government investigation has shown that the recent Newcastle Disease outbreak on a Surrey pheasant farm was caused by a shipment of birds from a farm in France's Loire Atlantique region. Its ministry of agriculture found traces of the same disease strain, and ordered a preventative culling of 35,000 partridges and 20,000 pheasants.The five farms involved were blocked and placed under surveillance as from 15 July. For the four Vendée farms, this restriction was lifted on 26 July following negative serological and virological results and ...
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