PARIS, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- France's Ministry of Agriculture said Tuesday that a highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza had been detected on a duck farm in the southwest of the country, confirming the country's first farm outbreak of the virus this year.
The H5N8 virus, which has never been detected in humans, has been spreading rapidly in wildlife in Europe through migratory birds.
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