H5N1 avian influenza virus spreads among mammals

At the end of the first week of March, the French government notified the World Organization for Animal HEALTH (WOAH) of an outbreak of highly pathogenic influenza among foxes living in a reserve in the north-east of Paris. 

Examination of tissue samples taken from one of the three dead individuals showed that they were victims of the H5N1 virus, very similar to the one that destroyed more than 200 million birds on different continents of the globe. Previously, the death of gulls was recorded in the reserve.