JAPAN SCRAMBLES TO LIMIT IMPACT OF BIRD FLU OUTBREAK
November 1st, 2016
JAPAN has confirmed a third outbreak of avian flu in as many days, prompting the cull of thousands of farmed birds in the north of the country. The highly pathogenic H5 strain was detected in ducks found dead at a farm in Aomori Prefecture, northern Honshu, on November 28 while, some 450km away in Niigata Prefecture, western Honshu, dead chickens at a poultry farm tested positive at two separate sites on November 28 and 30.
To stem the disease, local governments have destroyed about 560,000 chickens and ducks, and introduced quarantine measures. Producers within ...
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