03/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - A life-size simulation exercise on a suspected outbreak of bird flu in a poultry farm with 60,000 fowl is taking place on Thursday and Friday in Kergloff, a village located on the edge of two French departments in Brittany (Finistère and Morbihan), Le Figaro reports. The aim of the exercise is to test the effectiveness of the warning system, quarantine measures and coordination between public services in the event of high poultry mortality in an intensive livestock area, but the “exercise does not come within the framework of a pandemic”, the police (“Préfecture”) of the Brittany region states. “The exercise is intended to reassure the population, but it could also frighten it”, was the concern expressed by the person in charge of the poultry commission at the Chamber of Agriculture in Finistère, Didier Goubil.