Japan has sacrificed 10 million birds A record number to contain bird flu in poultry farms since last October, as reported by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture on Monday.
After the governorship, the number of culling rose to 9.98 million. ibaraki (Northeast of Tokyo) will also announce today that it has begun slaughtering approximately 930,000 chickens at a farm in the city. shirosato when a test confirms the presence of the virus.
This previous record According to the data of the ministry in question, there were 9.87 million birds in the season between November 2020 and March 2021.
A record by this Monday 56 sources of infection In 23 of Japan’s 47 prefectures, after the first case was detected at a poultry farm in Japan Prefecture last October. okay but (western Japan).
First epidemic in the region canto (center) occurred last November when Japanese authorities ordered the slaughter of approximately one million chickens from various farms, again in the Turkish province. ibaraki.
Among the cases this season is the sacrifice of some. 430 ostrich in your province Fukuoka (South) and are believed to be motivated by the influence of migratory birds on the farms in question.