Japan bird flu outbreak spreads to farm in third prefecture
27 November, 2020
Bird flu has been detected in a third Japanese prefecture, the agriculture ministry said, as a wave of infections at poultry farms sparks the country's worst outbreak on a lot more than four years.
Avian influenza was discovered at an egg farm on Awaji city in Hyogo prefecture west of Tokyo, which is in close proximity to Kagawa prefecture where in fact the primary infections were found out in poultry previous this month, the ministry said on the subject of its website.
The 146,000 chickens at the Hyogo farm will be slaughtered and buried, while movement in a 3km radius around the farm will be restricted.
The brand new action means a lot more than 1.8 million chickens could have possess been culled because the latest outbreak began.
The federal government said on Wednesday (Nov 26) it had detected an outbreak of bird flu on a chicken farm in southwestern Fukuoka prefecture, adding to the eight already reported in Kagawa prefecture west of Tokyo.
Japan's last outbreak of bird flu was in January 2018, also in Kagawa prefecture, when 91,000 chickens had been culled.
The last big outbreak was between November 2016 and March 2017, when a total of just one 1.67 million chickens were culled due to the H5N6 strain of bird flu.
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