25.03.2017

Local authorities in the eastern Japan prefectures of Miyagi and Chiba began culling nearly 300,000 chickens, after the highly pathogenic H5 strain of avian influenza was detected in some chickens that had died in local poultry farms.
The Miyagi prefectural government is planning to cull 220,000 chickens, while the Chiba authority is culling 68,000 chickens, in the latest in a series of avian influenza outbreaks in the country.