Officials in protecting fits working to cull about 40,000 chickens at a poultry farm in Kashima in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, November 25, 2023. /CFP
About 40,000 birds had been culled in southern Japan on Sunday after a extremely pathogenic avian influenza outbreak was confirmed, marking the primary reported case of avian influenza in Japan through the autumn and winter season this yr.
A extremely pathogenic avian influenza outbreak has been confirmed on a farm in Kashima City of the southern Japanese prefecture of Saga, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan introduced on Saturday.
According to a press launch from the ministry on Saturday, the affected farm housed roughly 40,000 laying hens.
Preventive measures had been taken together with culling all 40,000 birds on the affected farm, whereas the transportation of poultry and egg merchandise inside a 10-kilometer radius of the outbreak’s epicenter from the affected farm to areas exterior the designated zone was restricted.
The motion, which concerned about 255,000 birds at 12 poultry farms, got here after genetic testing confirmed that the lifeless birds on the affected farm had been contaminated with the H5 subtype of avian influenza.
The chook flu season in Japan usually begins in October annually. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida requested that related authorities, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, collaborate intently and swiftly implement thorough preventive measures to deal with avian influenza an infection.
Source: CGTN