16.02.2011

Local Japanese officials confirmed another outbreak of avian influenza at a poultry farm in Kiho, Mie Prefecture in the western Kansai region of the country.
The virus was the highly virulent H5 strain that has plagued poultry farms in southern Japan this season, making it the worst national outbreak in Japan since 2004.
A total of 67,000 chickens at the affected farm will be culled.