Japan: Japanese officials are investigating whether dead birds found at a chicken farm in Miyazaki prefecture were infected with avian influenza

12.01.2007

Japan

About 750 chickens (commercial egg type layers) have died at a poultry farm in the town of Kiyotake, Miyazaki Prefecture (Miyazaki prefecture (Miyazaki-ken) is located on Kyushu island) , and highly pathogenic avian influenza is suspected as the cause.