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Suspected bird flu kills farm chickens in S. Japan
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TOKYO, Jan 11 (Reuters) - An outbreak of suspected bird flu has killed about 750 chickens on a farm on south Japan's Kyushu island, a farm ministry official in Tokyo said on Thursday.
The farm, which has over 12,000 birds, is located in the small town of Kiyotake in Miyazaki Prefecture, an area devoted mainly to forestry and farming.
The deaths occurred on Wednesday and Thursday, and if bird flu is confirmed, all the chickens on the farm will be destroyed, he said. It was not known if any humans were infected, he added.
The farm will be placed in quarantine and local authorities are urging people to stay away from the area, he said.
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Bird flu feared at western Japan poultry farm
TOKYO: Approximately 750 chickens have died at a western Japan poultry farm in what authorities fear may be a bird flu outbreak, national and local authorities said late Thursday.
The chickens died at a poultry farm in the town of Kiyotake in western Miyazaki prefecture (state), prefectural official Toyonari Nukumizu said.
The prefecture has reported the deaths to the Agriculture Ministry and has begun tests, Nukumizu said.
The results of the tests will not be known until Friday evening, he added.
Bird flu is generally not harmful to humans, but the virulent H5N1 bird flu virus has claimed at least 157 lives worldwide since it began ravaging Asian poultry farms in late 2003, according to the World Health Organization.
There has been one confirmed human case involving the H5N1 virus in Japan, but no reported human deaths.
The deaths occurred Wednesday and Thursday, the Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement. The farm has about 12,000 chickens, and authorities are taking precautionary steps to keep them quarantined on site, it said.
Authorities will take the necessary epidemic prevention procedures if bird flu is confirmed at the farm, including destroying the remaining birds and sterilizing the facilities, the statement said.
Miyazaki is about 893 kilometers (558 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
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Japan awaits results in suspected bird flu case
By Reuters
Friday January 12, 08:16 AM
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese authorities expect test results as early as Saturday on a case of suspected bird flu in southwestern Japan and said on Friday that the lethal H5N1 strain could not be ruled out.
If confirmed, it would be Japan's first case of the H5N1 strain since 2004.
Results of a simple preliminary test for the bird flu virus were positive, but final results may not be available until Saturday or later.
"We are presently carrying out tests and cannot say with certainty which strain of bird flu it could be," an Agriculture Ministry official said on Friday.
"Given the number of birds that have died, H5N1 cannot be ruled out."
Some 750 chickens died on Wednesday and Thursday on a farm in Miyazaki, an area devoted mainly to forestry and farming on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu that says it is Japan's top breeder of chickens. There were no reports of human infection.
The Agriculture Ministry said that should bird flu be confirmed on the farm, which has over 12,000 birds, all birds there would be destroyed.
The farm in the town of Kiyotake has been placed in quarantine, and local authorities are investigating nearby farms and urging people there to restrict their movements.
An Agriculture Ministry official said on Thursday that local authorities were also urging people to stay away from the area.
According to Miyazaki, the number of chickens being raised in the area for meat was 18.4 million birds as of Feb. 1, 2006.
Between January and March in 2004, Japan had four outbreaks of the H5N1 type strain in poultry, including an outbreak in Kyoto in western Japan in February 2004 that led to the disposal of about 240,000 chickens and 20 million eggs.
In Dec. 2004, the Health Ministry said at least one person had been infected with the virus after the Kyoto poultry farm outbreak and four others had also probably been infected, but added that none of the five had developed symptoms of the disease.
Hospital officials in Indonesia said on Friday that a woman there had died of H5N1 bird flu, bringing the country's human death toll to 59.
South Korea's healthy ministry said on Thursday that a person was infected with bird flu late last year, after an outbreak of the H5N1 strain first hit poultry farms in the country last November, but had not developed any serious illness.
According to the most recent figures from the World Health Organisation, 158 people have been killed by the virus since 2003.
In Japan, a less virulent strain of bird flu, caused by the H5N2 virus, was found in a poultry farm in Ibaraki prefecture in June 2005, and since then, there have been outbreaks of the weaker strain at 41 farms, the last one in January 2006.
The Health Ministry has said at least 77 people may have been infected by the H5N2 virus, but that none showed any symptoms.
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Japan to conduct nation-wide bird flu inspections at all poultry farms
Health officials scatter limestone at the poultry farm in Kiyotake, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Friday.
The Agricultural Ministry decided on Friday to inspect all poultry farms across Japan for bird flu after about 750 chickens died on a farm in Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said.
The death of some 750 chickens has been confirmed at a poultry farm in Kiyotake, Miyazaki Prefecture. Officials at the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry believe that they were infected with a highly toxic strain of the bird flu virus.
The birds' death prompted the ministry to convene an emergency meeting and it decided to inspect all farms across Japan through local prefectural governments.
After experts confirm that the chickens died of bird flu, the government will dispose of all birds at the poultry farm in Kiyotake.
Government officials also decided to ask chicken meat associations and sales groups to try and prevent any rumors from affecting the sales of chicken in the country.
"I think the damage will not spread because officials have taken preventive measures such as withholding delivery of birds from the farm," said Masayuki Kunii, a vice agricultural minister.
The local Miyazaki Prefectural Government summoned officials from chicken-growing organizations for an emergency meeting on Friday.
Prefectural officials asked the growers to report any outbreak of suspected bird flu as soon as possible and to set up nets designed to prevent chickens from contacting wild birds that might be a source of infection. (Mainichi)
January 12, 2007
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Miyazaki, Japan, a suspected outbreak of avian flu in farms (Picture)
Sprinkle with lime disinfection of farms in the surrounding vaccination.
Japanese quarantine authorities on Friday (January 12) from Miyazaki sent to a suspected outbreak of the avian flu epidemic in the county farms were disinfected.
Miyazaki government and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Thursday (January 11) night that Miyazaki County, which is situated within a 750-wu chicken farms in the Town of collective death.
"The Ministry officials told Reuters on Friday said : "According to the number of birds killed, This is not ruled out the H5N1 bird flu epidemic. "
Authorities said that based on preliminary results, dead chickens were found positive for avian flu virus. Detailed test results will be the fastest on Saturday (January 13).
If the test results proved positive. This will be the first since Japan in 2004 epidemics of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1.
The Ministry said that once the H5N1 avian flu virus outbreak is confirmed, it will kill all the over 12,000 poultry farms.
The chicken farm has been quarantined and other local officials, it has been to the neighboring farm survey and calls for the reduction related activities.
Local authorities have urged people to stay away from poultry farms area. There is no report about human infection.
This chicken farm is reportedly one of Japan's most famous broiler farms.
The January to March 2004 between Japan, four outbreaks of H5N1 avian flu. yoto which together with the epidemic broke out in February, nearly 240,000 chickens and 20 million eggs were destroyed.
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