Versailleux

Infobox Commune de France
nomcommune=Versailleux
région=Rhône-Alpes
département=Ain
arrondissement=Bourg-en-Bresse
canton=Chalamont
insee=01434
cp=01330
maire=Gérard Branchy
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm=Chalamont
longitude=5.10444444444
latitude=45.9811111111
alt moy=286 m
alt mini=274
alt maxi=303 m
hectares=1877
km²=18.77
sans=255
date-sans=1999
dens=14

Versailleux is a commune in the department of Ain in eastern France.

On February 23, 2006 during the epidemic of avian influenza, a great number of turkeys died in a breeding of 11,000 animals, probably because of the virus H5N1. The turkeys had never left it because the breeding was confined. The commune of Joyeux, in which the first French case was detected on February 13, is located a few kilometers in the south.

ee also

* Dombes
*Communes of the Ain department

References

"Based on the article in the French Wikipedia."

External links

* [http://ladombes.free.fr/Villes_Dombes/Versailleux.htm La Dombes and the city of Versailleux]