More than 100,000 chickens will be culled in two more prefectures in Japan

BEIJING, Dec. 10, comprehensive Japanese media reported that on the 10th, Japan and Goyama Prefecture and Dgeon Prefecture bird flu outbreak, more than 100,000 chickens will be culled.
According to the Japan Delivery Association (NHK), and goyama prefecture government said that a chicken farm in the county of Jichuan city on the 9th a large number of chicken deaths, the local epidemic prevention department in the chicken farm quarantine, detected the H5 avian influenza virus.
, the local government has asked Japan's Land Self-Defense Force to reinforce the chicken farm's 67,000 chickens for culling and landfill treatment.
, the daxian government also announced that the county's Zobo City, a chicken farm was also detected H5 avian influenza virus.
an emergency meeting, the local government decided to cull and landfill some 55,000 chickens at the chicken farm.
According to Kyodo news agency, since October, there have been bird flu outbreaks in eight prefectures in Japan, including Kyodo, Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Nara, Hiroshima and the new outbreak of Hekoyama and Oda.
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