Japan hit by new bird flu case
08.22.2005, 06:43 AM
TOKYO (AFX) - The authorities said they have discovered a new case of bird flu at a chicken farm near here, prompting health officials to order the culling of some 100,000 chickens.
The farm is in Ishioka, 80 kilometers northeast of here, and keeps 1.11 mln chickens in 12 houses, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement.
It was one of three farms which supply chickens to another farm which was found last Thursday to have been hit by bird flu.
The local health office is to kill all 100,000 chickens in the house where the virus of the H5 strain of bird flu was found.
Japan has been relatively free of bird flu, which has killed 61 people in Southeast Asia since 2003, with 13 cases reported so far, an official of the ministry said.
There were four outbreaks in Japan last year, the first cases in the country since 1925.
TOKYO (AFX) - The authorities said they have discovered a new case of bird flu at a chicken farm near here, prompting health officials to order the culling of some 100,000 chickens.
The farm is in Ishioka, 80 kilometers northeast of here, and keeps 1.11 mln chickens in 12 houses, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement.
It was one of three farms which supply chickens to another farm which was found last Thursday to have been hit by bird flu.
The local health office is to kill all 100,000 chickens in the house where the virus of the H5 strain of bird flu was found.
Japan has been relatively free of bird flu, which has killed 61 people in Southeast Asia since 2003, with 13 cases reported so far, an official of the ministry said.
There were four outbreaks in Japan last year, the first cases in the country since 1925.
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