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Kagoshima (Jiji Press)—The prefectural government of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, said Sunday that it has confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a local chicken farm.
This marked the fourth bird flu outbreak confirmed at a poultry farm in the nation this season.
Work to cull some 23,000 egg-laying chickens at the farm in the Kagoshima city of Izumi started at 7 a.m. Sunday.
A local livestock hygiene center on Saturday morning received a report of an increase in dead chickens from the farm.
A simple virus test was conducted on 13 dead chickens, and three of them tested positive. Infection was confirmed Sunday in a detailed genetic examination, according to the prefectural government.
