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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.