France advancing with HPAI vaccination program

France, the first major poultry exporter to vaccinate against highly pathogenic avian influenza, is making progress in vaccinating its duck flocks but has suffered a backlash in international markets.

March 1, 2024

France’s first HPAI vaccination campaign is focusing on ducks, given the role that duck farms have played in previous disease outbreaks.

France’s first HPAI vaccination campaign is focusing on ducks, given the role that duck farms have played in previous disease outbreaks.

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France is now partway through its highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 vaccination campaign, which will see 64 million ducks vaccinated over the course of a year and cost approximately Euro 100 million (US$108.9 million).

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