Avian flu outbreaks are accumulating in the Morbihan department. After a breeding of laying hens on October 23, 2024 in Moréac, then two duck breedings in the commune of Noyal-Muzillac on October 25, 2024, a new outbreak of avian influenza (AIHP) was confirmed on November 2 in a breeding of poultry in Évellys.
The prefect of Morbihan specifies that depopulation is underway on the farm concerned, while an epidemiological investigation is being carried out in order to seek “the probable origin of the contamination”.
This new outbreak leads to the extension of the regulated protection and surveillance zone, indicates the prefect in a press release published on November 3.
Consequently, a regulated and surveillance zone within a radius of 3 and 10 km around the contaminated establishments was extended to the municipalities of: Moréac, Évellys, Pluméliau-Bieuzy, Réguiny. Municipalities are also fully or partly affected by the 10 km zone: Bignan, Buléon, Crédin, Kerfourn, Lantillac, Locminé, Moustoir-Ac, Guénin, La Chapelle-Neuve, Noyal-Pontivy, Pleugriffet, Plumelin, Radenac, Saint -Allouestre, Saint-Thuriau.
No movements, no set-ups
Within these zones, poultry and captive birds must be sheltered, “including farmyards,” recalled the GDS of Brittany in a previous press release. In protection zones, town halls also carry out a census of private backyards. » Setting up is prohibited, as are movements of poultry, day-old chicks and hatching eggs from the farm.
The health body indicates that the lifting of the protection zone and the surveillance zone “will be done at the earliest 21 days and 30 days respectively” after “the slaughter of the animals and the end of the preliminary cleaning-disinfection operations of the last outbreak in the protection zone”, as well as “the carrying out, with favorable results, of visits to establishments in the respective zones”.
