France has started vaccinating ducks against bird flu in a bid to stem the virus that killed millions of birds around the world, a move that has prompted the United States to impose trade restrictions on French poultry imports.
France has been among the countries worst affected by an unprecedented global spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza – commonly known as bird flu – that has disrupted supply of poultry meat and eggs and sent prices rocketing in many parts of the globe in the past years.
