The Ministry of Agriculture of Japan announced a new outbreak of bird flu recorded in Miyazaki Prefecture, where about 100,000 chickens began to perish. It has been reported DEA News.
It was announced that a quarantine was introduced around the farm in the city of Kawaminami for the transportation of chickens and eggs within a three-kilometer radius, and the export of chickens and eggs outside the 10-kilometer zone was also prohibited.
Considering the latest outbreak, the number of birds killed due to bird flu in Japan this season broke a record by exceeding 10 million, according to the agency’s latest data.
In Saitama Prefecture, adjacent to Tokyo, due to a previous bird flu outbreak destroyed 190 thousand chickens. On December 16, 76 dead birds were found in one of the prefecture’s poultry farms, nine of which were confirmed to have bird flu.
Prior to that, officials from Japan’s Aichi Prefecture 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.
On December 2, authorities in Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan plan to destroy About 120,000 chickens at a local poultry farm due to the bird flu epidemic.