Workers destroy fowl at a poultry farm in Saiki, Oita Prefecture, where a highly pathogenic avian flu strain was found. (Eiji Hori)
The farm ministry has issued a nationwide warning about a potentially unprecedented spread of avian flu, which has already led to the culling of a record number of chickens.
Ministry officials instructed all 47 prefectures to have poultry farms check on their animal hygiene measures and submit reports. All poultry farms are also being asked to thoroughly disinfect their animal quarters.
Most of the avian flu cases confirmed so far have occurred in western Japan. But the avian flu virus was found earlier in the feces of wild birds in Hokkaido, and experts said all prefectures are at risk of the disease.
12/10/2020
TOKYO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Japan s worst-ever bird flu
outbreak has spread to a new area and now affects almost 20% of
the country s 47 prefectures, with officials ordering mass
cullings after poultry deaths on two farms.
More than 370,000 head of poultry will be slaughtered and
buried after avian influenza was discovered at two breeding
farms in Mimasaka city in Okayama prefecture in southwestern
Japan, the agriculture ministry said on Friday.
Highly pathogenic bird flu, a H5 subtype most likely brought
by migrating birds from the Asia or Europe, has spread to nine
of Japan s 47 prefectures, with nearly 3 million birds culled to
date, a record number.
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Self-Defense Forces personnel work on Friday inside a chicken farm in Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, hit by an outbreak of avian influenza. | OKAYAMA PREFECTURAL GOVERNMENT / VIA KYODO
Jiji Dec 11, 2020
Okayama – The Okayama Prefectural Government announced Friday an outbreak of bird flu believed to be highly pathogenic at a chicken farm in the city of Mimasaka in the prefecture.
All chickens at the farm, totaling about 640,000 heads, will be culled to stem the spread of the infection. The culling will be one of the largest in a single bird flu outbreak case in Japan this year.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's worst-ever bird flu outbreak has spread to a new area and now affects almost 20% of the country's 47 prefectures, with offic.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's worst-ever bird flu outbreak has spread to a new area and now affects almost 20% of the country's 47 prefectures, with offic.