For the first time during the bird flu season (autumn to spring), Japanese authorities killed more than 15 million chickens due to bird flu outbreaks. It has been reported TASS.
This season, about 60 bird flu outbreaks have been detected in more than 20 prefectures in Japan.
The previous record was from November 2020 to March 2021, when around 10 million chickens were killed due to 52 outbreaks.
Officials of Japan’s Aichi Prefecture in December 2022 decided It killed about 310,000 chickens due to the avian flu epidemic. It was noted that the focus of the spread of the infection was in a poultry farm in the city of Toyohashi.
in the same months reportedIn southwestern Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture, authorities plan to exterminate about 120,000 chickens at a local poultry farm due to an outbreak of bird flu.
Source: Gazeta
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