More than 50,000 chickens will be culled in another bird flu outbreak in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- More than 50,000 chickens will be culled in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, on The 14th, according to the Japan Delivery Association (NHK).
reported that in the early hours of the 14th, local time, Miyazaki Prefecture, a chicken farm in the city of The death of chickens, and then, the local quarantine department in the chicken farm detected the H5 avian influenza virus.
reported that the Miyazaki prefecture government at 4 p.m. that day, the outbreak of chicken farms began to cull chickens, about 26,000 chickens will be culled to landfill.
In addition, some 27,000 chickens from the chicken farm, which had shipped to a meat processing plant in Chuannanyu, the prefecture, before the outbreak was detected, will also be culled.
Miyazaki prefecture government said the plant was larger in the area and would not reopen until culling and disinfection operations were completed and permission from Japan's central government was obtained.
, hundreds of thousands of chickens have been culled in several parts of Japan, including Miyazaki, Fukuoka and Nagyoto.
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