Nearly 40,000 chickens ordered to be slaughtered in western Japan due to avian flu

The authorities japanese ordered this Tuesday the slaughter of some 40,000 chickens on a farm in the west of the archipelago after detecting numerous dead birds the day before whose tests came back positive for bird flu.

The birds belonged to a poultry farm located in the city of Kanonjiin Kagawa prefecture (Shikoku island), around which an exclusion area of ​​three kilometers around has been established, according to details published today by the public network NHK.

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On the 31st, around thirty poultry were found dead and 13 of them were analyzed, of which 11 tested positive for the highly contagious H5 strain of the avian influenza virus, so the Authorities decreed the slaughter of tens of thousands of birds from the facilities.

In addition to limiting movement around the affected farm, the authorities of Kagawa They have restricted exports within a radius of 10 kilometers to prevent the virus from spreading.

Kagawa prefecture was the scene of a series of highly contagious bird flu outbreaks two years ago that led to the culling of some 1.8 million birds.

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This is the third outbreak of the animal disease detected in Japan this season, after others that are known in the prefecture of Okayama, on the island of Honshu, the largest in the archipelago and located north of Kagawa; and in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan.

Source: EFE

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