Bird flu outbreaks strike Japan farms
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Tokyo: Japanese authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens Sunday after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate region. It is the 1...
Tokyo: Japanese authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens Sunday after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate region.
It is the 19th bird flu outbreak of the season in Japan, the agriculture ministry said.
The latest farm reported increasing deaths of fowl, and test results confirmed Sunday that bird flu was the cause, the ministry added.
It prompted the culling of 50,000 chickens there, the regional Iwate government said.
Iwate also banned the movements of 170,000 birds kept at two other farms within a three-kilometre (1.86-mile) radius.
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