14.03.2011

Avian influenza H5N1 was confirmed Sunday among chickens at a poultry farm in Wakaba-ku Chiba City, marking the first such case in the Kanto region centering on Tokyo. Local authorities began culling about 35,000 birds at the farm and restricted the movements of another 869,000 birds being raised within a 10-kilometer radius of the farm in question. Chiba is Japan’s second-largest chicken egg producing prefecture.