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Japan's worst bird flu outbreak on record spread to new farms and now affects more than 20% of the country's 47 prefectures, with officials ordering cullings after more poultry deaths.
12/13/2020
By Aaron Sheldrick and Yuka Obayashi
TOKYO, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Japan s worst bird flu outbreak on
record spread to new farms and now affects more than 20% of the
country s 47 prefectures, with officials ordering cullings after
more poultry deaths.
About 11,000 birds will be slaughtered and buried after
avian influenza was discovered at an egg farm in Higashiomi city
in Shiga prefecture in southwestern Japan, the agriculture
ministry said over the weekend.
Another outbreak started in Kagawa prefecture, where the
outbreak emerged last month, the ministry said on Monday.
The outbreak in Japan and neighbouring South Korea is one of
two separate highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) epidemics
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