Japan: Avian influenza in Western Japan’s Nara Prefecture

06.12.2020

Nara Prefecture announced an outbreak of avian influenza at a chicken farm in the city of Gojo in the western Japan prefecture.
This is the 16th case of HPAI being confirmed at a chicken farm in Japan this year. 
The Nara prefectural government will cull some 83,000 chickens at the farm in Gojo.
Restrictions on the movement were imposed for about 47,000 chickens raised in areas of 10 kilometers from the affected facility.