Duck farming resumes in France with end of bird flu crisis

FILE PHOTO: Mulard ducks at a poultry farm in Montsoue, France, January 12, 2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) - Duck farmers in southwestern France resumed operations on Monday with the latest outbreak of bird flu now deemed to be under control after the culling of millions of birds and a six-week halt to production.

France, which has the largest poultry flock in the European Union, is one of the countries that has been the most affected by the H5N8 bird flu virus that has spread through wild birds in most parts of the continent since late last year.