Men hold living ducks before putting them in cages for culling as a new epizootic disease caused by the H5N8 virus spreads in multiple European countries in Mugron, France, January 13, 2021. /Getty

On Serge Mora's breeding farm, men catch ducks for putting them in cages before being culled elsewhere in Mugron, France, January 13, 2021. /Getty

All ducks in the 5 departments in France must be culled in order to stop or to slow the contagion following orders by France's agriculture minister. The ducks on Serge Mora's breeding farm are transferred to a duck culling place in Mugron, France, January 13, 2021. /Getty

Living ducks in a truck to a duck culling place. In Serge Mora's farm in Mugron (Landes department), 2,000 ducks have been culled because his farm had been infected. On his 2,500 ducks, 500 died of the disease, the others were removed to be culled in the morning in Mugron, France, January 13, 2021. /Getty

The sign reads "disinfection area" in Mugron, France, January 13, 2021. /Getty