29.11.2016

Japan started culling more than 300,000 chickens and ducks after a HPAI H5N6 was found in two locations in the north of the country. It is the first time in two years that avian influenza virus has been detected in poultry farms in Japan.
In Niigata prefecture north of Tokyo, local authorities started culling about 310,000 chickens at a farm in the village of Sekikawa.
Further north in the prefecture of Aomori, about 16,5000 ducks were being culled.