Japan culls chickens after bird flu proven
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JAPAN has ordered the slaughter of some 112,000 chickens after officials confirmed yesterday bird flu infections at a poultry farm in the south.
DNA tests confirmed the H5 strain of the virus at a farm in Kumamoto prefecture that kept 56,000 birds, after its owner reported on Saturday a lot of sudden deaths among his poultry, the agriculture ministry said in a statement.
Officials also ordered the culling of another 56,000 birds at a separate farm run by the same owner after treating it as a location of possible infections, the ministry said.
It was the first confirmed outbreak of bird flu in Japan in three years.
The ministry has however been warning farmers about infection risks, citing the continued spread of the disease in Asia, including South Korea.
Local authorities on Saturday banned movement of chickens from the two affected farms as well as other farms in their vicinities.
Authorities were sanitizing areas around the two farms and testing birds at other area farms.
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