Bird flu resurfaces in Japan
Japanese authorities say they have discovered a fresh outbreak of bird flu on a chicken farm in the east of the country.
The farm is close to where several cases of the disease have been detected since late June.
Officials say tests are under way to confirm the sub-type of the virus.
All recent bird flu outbreaks in the region have so far been confirmed as less virulent than the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease, found in Japan early last year.
The H5N1 strain first surfaced in poultry in Hong Kong and China eight years ago and is known to have killed more than 50 people in South-East Asia.
- Reuters
The farm is close to where several cases of the disease have been detected since late June.
Officials say tests are under way to confirm the sub-type of the virus.
All recent bird flu outbreaks in the region have so far been confirmed as less virulent than the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease, found in Japan early last year.
The H5N1 strain first surfaced in poultry in Hong Kong and China eight years ago and is known to have killed more than 50 people in South-East Asia.
- Reuters
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