27.12.2016

Japanese authorities had ordered the culling of 107,000 chicken layers at a poultry farm on Kumamoto (Nankan-machi) after a highly pathogenic strain of H5N6 avian influenza was confirmed.
About 400 local officials and troops have started to cull all the chickens at the farm in Nankan Town. 
This is the seventh case this winter since the highly pathogenic H5N6 virus was confirmed at poultry farms in Niigata and Aomori prefectures in late November.
A week ago, about 120,000 were destroyed at a farm in neighbouring Miyazaki prefecture.