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Bird flu outbreaks strike Iwate Prefecture farms

Bird flu outbreaks strike Iwate Prefecture farms


Japanese authorities started culling some 50,000 chickens Sunday after a fowl flu outbreak at a farm within the northern Iwate Prefecture area.

It is the nineteenth fowl flu outbreak of the season in Japan, the agriculture ministry mentioned.

The newest farm reported growing deaths of fowl, and take a look at outcomes confirmed Sunday that fowl flu was the trigger, the ministry added.

It prompted the culling of fifty,000 chickens there, the regional Iwate authorities mentioned.

Iwate additionally banned the actions of 170,000 birds saved at two different farms inside a three-kilometer (1.86-mile) radius.

Some 3.8 million birds saved inside 10 kilometers of the contaminated farm are to remain contained in the zone for now.

On Thursday, one other farm in Iwate and a agency within the central Aichi area have been hit by the virus and started killing their 120,000 and 147,000 birds respectively.

On December 29, an outbreak was confirmed at a farm in jap Ibaraki, ensuing within the killing of 1.08 million birds there.

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