At the end of December, two large egrets were found dead on the Grand Coulon pond in the town of Outines. Tests carried out on the two dead birds showed that they were carriers of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus.
The Grand Coulon pond is now at the center of a surveillance zone with a radius of 5 km and several municipalities are affected by a decree published on January 3 which suspends all hunts of game birds and waterfowl. .
This decree was issued jointly by the prefectures of the departments of Marne, Aube and Haute-Marne. It also includes all the health measures already taken in other departments with controls in professional farms as well as in the caller parks of the sector.
The list of municipalities affected by this decree is as follows:
- Arrigny,
- Châtillon-sur-Broué,
- Drosnay,
- Giffaumont-Champaubert,
- Larzicourt,
- Outines,
- Saint-Rémy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson,
- Sainte-Marie-du-Lac-Nuisement,
- Droyes.
